The Uttarakhand Congress has demanded that the governor should intervene on the complaints of large scale irregularities in the recently held examination of forest guards and direct the state government to cancel this examination since its sanctity has been violated.

 A delegation of Congress leaders led by the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president, Pritam Singh met the governor Baby Rani Maurya at Raj Bhawan on Wednesday. The delegation told the governor that a high level inquiry should be conducted on the large scale irregularities that have occurred in the forest guard examination. The Congress leaders also submitted a memorandum to the governor.  In the memorandum, the Congress party said that the manner in which the picture of the OMR sheet of the question paper was taken from a mobile phone and sent outside proves that the mobile phones were taken inside the examination halls.

 The Congress leaders said that the rumors are rife that Rs 5 to 7 lakh were taken from some applicants for clearing the examination which clearly shows that the gang involved has some connection with government. Lakhs of the unemployed were waiting for the examination from last three years. In the memorandum, the Congress party alleged that the BJP government in the state is immersed neck deep in the corruption and news of scams are coming to fore with alarming regularity about the government which boasted of ‘zero tolerance on corruption’.

The PCC president Pritam Singh said that the BJP had promised that it would bring Lokayukt within 100 days of assuming office but the BJP government has failed to bring Lokayukt even after three years.  He said that dithering of the government on Lokayukt bill proves that it is not serious to take action on corruption.

The PCC president claimed that government is on back foot on the NH-74 land acquisition and compensation scam and the officials suspended in the infamous scam on the recommendations of the SIT have been reinstated. He said that the business of transfers is continuing in the garb of the Transfers act. The PCC President cited scholarship scam, SIIDCUL scam, NHM scam and the viral videos as glaring evidences of corruption in government.