Congress has said, it will challenge the imposition of President’s rule in the Uttarakhand High Court. Addressing reporters in New Delhi today, party spokesperson Kapil Sibal said, the party will move the court against the Centre’s decision and request to withdraw President’s rule. He also questioned the validity of imposition of the President’s rule, saying that the question of constitutional breakdown does not arise.
Mr Sibal also charged the BJP with attempting to completely wipe out Congress from the country.
Another Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed also accused the Narendra Modi government with making an assault on the democracy by imposing President’s rule in Uttarakhand. He said, the Congress will raise the issue in the Parliament and every political forum.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat today condemned the imposition of President’s rule in the state as a “murder” of democracy and the Constitution and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hands were dipped in the “blood” of the “trampled” aspirations of the people.
Alleging that central rule was a result of a “premeditated conspiracy” hatched by the Centre to dislodge a democratically elected Congress government in the state, Rawat also said the BJP was “thirsty for his blood” right from the day he assumed office on February one, 2014 and did not want his government to stabilise.