PDF-Cong honeymoon over: Champion

Tribune News Service

Mussoorie, May 30

Kunwar Pranav Champion said today that the PDF-Congress alliance was nothing but a marriage of political convenience and it seemed that the political honeymoon was over. The MLA, who was in Mussoorie for a brief visit, was speaking to The Tribune about a spat between PDF MLAs and the Congress over the Rajya Sabha seat from Uttarakhand.

It was an opportunistic alliance and people would see the Congress and PDF quarrelling more in future.

Champion said Chief Minister Harish Rawat was a malicious person who made commitment that he could never fulfil. Rawat was into nepotism and promoting corruption through illegal mining, going against the Congress manifesto and mandate given by the people so it became his moral duty to leave the government.

It was under such circumstances that nine MLAs and later on one more Congress candidate Rekha Arya joined the revolt against a corrupt government. Kunwar Pranav said during his tenure as vice-chairman, the state Mining Commission, the corruption being unleashed by the Congress, especially relatives and family members of CM Harish Rawat, was order of the day and when he tried to raise the issue of illegal mining, he was rebuffed by the CM.

The BJP became a natural choice for them as it had come to their rescue during their bad times and provided them security from the Harish Rawat government, said Kunwar Pranav.

Harish Rawat yesterday came to my constituency and put up a candidate against him. Harish Rawat was mistaken that he could defat him. I had won twice on the basis of his work, said Kunwar Pranav.

Harish Rawat had withdrawn Aamkhedi bridge village project, proposed Girls Degree College, Dallawala, Raichi Bridge, polytechnic at Tuglakhpur, electric power station and sewerage plant at Dandhera, said Kunwar Pranav.