DEHRA DUN: The Uttaranchal Vidhan Sabha is likely to witness a stormy session beginning this coming Tuesday with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal and Bahujan Samaj Party gearing up to corner the Tiwari Government on various fronts.

As if that was not enough, Chief Minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari may have to face embarrassing moments from a section of his own party colleagues who are known to have created a greater din in the House than the Opposition in the past four and a half years.

The former Minister and rebel Congress MLA from Tehri, Kishore Upadhyay, has already shot off a missive to Mr. Tiwari tendering his resignation if his long drawn demand for proper rehabilitation of Tehri Dam oustees is not met before Tuesday.

Last year a group of MLAs loyal to Uttaranchal Pradesh Congress Committee president Harish Rawat had blocked nearly an entire session of the Assembly seeking discussions on delimitation and other issues. The BJP had then accused the Congress of using its own MLAs to disrupt proceedings of the House so that they could not raise issues of public interest.

Former Chief Minister and State BJP president Bhagat Singh Koshiary has demanded a White Paper on the number of persons given employment by the Government, the "fake" statistics that showed Uttaranchal developing as a herbal, tourist or industrial destination. "All the development works have been confined to Naini Tal, Hardwar and Dehra Dun city while the remote villages of the State still cry for proper roads, medicine, education or electricity," he said.

Kashi Singh Airi of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal has accused the Government of promoting corruption at all levels. After the recruitment and jatropha scams, the common man was now being forced to pay at least Rs.500 to the officials concerned to secure a domicile certificate, he complains, adding that Mr. Tiwari had while paying little attention to the lot of the poor allowed all his colleagues down to the level of Zilla Panchayats to spend crores of rupees on visiting foreign countries in the name of "learning" development tricks.

According to the Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Nizamuddin, the Government has no clear policy on agriculture or farmers' welfare. "I hope Mr. Tiwari will come out with a comprehensive road map for the development of the rural poor before the State goes to the polls early next year," he said.

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