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BJP plans stir against Tiwari Government

By Our Staff Correspondent

DEHRA DUN, SEPT. 8. The Bharatiya Janata Party will soon hold demonstrations at the block level to highlight "massive corruption" prevalent in the Congress Government in Uttaranchal.

Announcing this here today, the BJP general secretary and former Finance Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal `Nishank', said that the common man was feeling cheated as the Government had lost control over the bureaucrats who were flouting laws to facilitate the wealthy who could bribe them heavily.

"Not a single bureaucrat listens to the orders of the Ministers and the Congress is solely responsible for this morass," he said.

Mr Nishank wondered how the senior IAS and other civil service officers had cornered a large patch of land near Dehra Dun at throwaway prices and even reduced the circle rates of the area so that they had to pay less as stamp duty while registering it in their names.

"The Tiwari Government has failed to provide even an inch of land for constructing houses to the masses while the bureaucrats have even shown government land as their own on Sahasradhara road. The land scandal in the name of USHA, the housing society of civil servants, needs a CBI probe just like the civil services colony at Vasant Vihar where most of the houses are huge buildings each worth over Rs 2 crores. A civil servant does not get such high salaries that he can make mansions. The BJP wants to know from where the black money came," Mr Nishank said.

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