Protestors at Jantar Mantar demand immediate construction of Chillarkhal, Kotdwar, Laldhang , Ram Nagar and Dehradun Marg
Several people from Laldhang, Chillarkhal and Kotdwar including few from Delhi and NCR has protested at Jantar Mantar on Sunday demanding construction of the eight kilometres stretch of Kotdwar- Chillarkhal – Laldhang- Ram Nagar Dehradun road for which the union minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari had accorded public assurance in a public meeting when he had come to Kotdwar to campaign for the then BJP candidate Dr. Harak Singh Rawat in 2017 elections.
While addressing the people then union minister Nitin Gadkari had said that you make Dr.Rawat victorious and I will construct for you the Chillarkar Laldhang motorable road appealing to a huge crowd assembled in his public meeting at Kotdwar , the gateway to Garhwal, Uttarakhand.
This is a long pending demand and the local people are incessantly demanding this need to be fulfilled at the earliest as it will reduce the time to reach the state capital Dehradun.
An independent journalist , you tuber and social activist of Kotdwar Praveen Thapa who marched on foot from Kotdwar to Delhi in eleven days to open the eyes and ears of the union minister and the central government including the Uttarakhand government to remind them of their eight years old assurance said that these politicians are lier, they give false promises to the electorates and after their object is attained they forget their pre election promises.
While strongly demanding their above demand to be fulfilled in toto and at the earliest the protestors at Jantar Mantar and Praveen Thapa said that the state and central government are taking no interest in this important issue which has affected lakhs of residents of Dugadda , Koldwar and elsewhere as the matter is stuck in Supreme Court since 2019 after a petitioner deliberately filed a petition that this is the reserve Tiger belt hence the road shouldn’t be built.
The people said that the carnivores or maneaters are not more important than human beings who are being recklessly killed by the maneater leopards and wild bear in Uttarakhand.
Instead of fulfilling the genuine demand of the electorates, the petitions are being filed favouring the carnivores and maneaters killing human beings in Garhwal said the protestors and Praveen Thapa first to raise this issue and walking on feet to Delhi from Kotdwar covering the distance of three hundred kilometres.
The protestors raised slogans denouncing the Kotdwar MLA Ritu Khanduri and Congress aswell as BJP law makers for not fulfilling their protracted demand despite the local electorates demanding it, time and against.
They said that during the next election if their demand is not fulfilled they will ensure that their present elected representative is defeated and affidavit taken from the opposition candidate against casting of vote to fullfill their demand.
They urged the union government and the state government to heed to their request and fullfill their demand as the saffron party BJP is in power for the last twelve years in Delhi and in Uttarakhand for the last seven years.
Despite heavy rain the demonstrations continued their protest and raised slogans that rent the air demanding immediate construction of the Chillarpur, Kotdwar, Laldhang, RamNagar , Dehradun Road of merely eight kilometres stretch.
All the protestors hailed Praveen Thapa’s efforts in this regard and said that he despite being from Nepal origin though now a permanent resident of Kotdwar has raised his voice and walked on foot covering 300 kilometres in 11 days but the government of Uttarakhand and the centre is deaf and dumb condemning it in strongest possible terms.
The advocate practising in Supreme Court Rohit Dandriyal who managed the Dharna n demonstration said that he will stand unitedly and solidly with Praveen Thapa and his entire dedicated team and will fight the case on their behalf free of cost in the apex court if need be in the near future.
