Cong slams BJP for throttling democracy over SIDCUL issue

Congress workers across Uttarakhand today burnt effigies representing the BJP, saying that the main opposition party was throttling democracy by disrupting state Assembly proceedings over the alleged SIDCUL land scam.
Led by PCC vice-president Suryakant Dhasmana, Congress workers gathered outside the party office in the state capital and shouted slogans against BJP saying that allegations being made by it of a scam in SIDCUL were absolutely unfounded.
"BJP is throttling democracy by disrupting the Assembly over a non-issue (due to which) the state government is not being able to take up important issues of public interest," Dhasmana said.
BJP is raising a din over a "non-issue" to divert public attention from Bhati Commission report which, it is afraid, has indicted its own leaders in the Uttarakhand Seed and Tarai Development Corporation scam, Congress leaders said.

Bhati Commission's report on Uttarakhand Seed and Tarai Development Corporation scam, one of a series of alleged scams perpetrated during the previous BJP government in the state, has been submitted to the state government which will table it on the floor of the state assembly on March 20.
The first two days of the ongoing Budget session of the state Assembly were hit by ruckus created by BJP members who demanded a CBI probe into the alleged sale of State Infrastructure and Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand Ltd (SIDCUL) land meant for industrial purposes to real estate firms at throwaway prices.