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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Maj Gen (Retd) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri on Monday said his party would secure a clear majority in the February 2012 State Assembly elections.
"The people of the State have invested high hopes in the BJP. They are fed up with the Congress and its anti-people policies," Gen Khanduri said.
Replying to observations that the CM, during his second stint, is a transformed man, Gen Khanduri said that he has learned several lessons in the last 27 months. One of them is that there is a huge difference between Central and State politics.
The CM said his main job is to bring the BJP back to power in the coming elections for which he has been "working very hard".
Speaking on the upcoming Monsoon Session, which is set to begin by Tuesday, he said that the Government is planning to bring a new Bill to allow for confiscating of benami (anonymous) property for use by the Government for public causes.
Asked how one would come to know about benami property owned by Cabinet Ministers or bureaucrats, Gen Khanduri said the procedure for disclosure must be made online so that common people, who have information about the property of a Minister or an officer, will have the means to inform the Government.
The Government has taken a series of new initiatives to fight corruption including a transfer policy and creation of a new department for good governance, Gen Khanduri said. He added that the Government would challenge in the apex court the Uttarakhand High Court decision which overturns an existing rule dated September 12, 2003, which says that agriculture land more than 250 square metres in area cannot be purchased by anyone who does not possess a piece of agricultural land here even if he or she is a resident of the hill State.
The decision of the High Court is not in favour of the people of Uttarakhand, the CM said, adding that, earlier, sale of farmland to persons from outside the State was controlled by the Government. As per the earlier rule if an applicant had not received any communiqué from the Government within three months of submission of application, it was being presumed that the Government had no objection to the transaction. "Being a Chief Minister of Uttarakhand I had made a provision that a person cannot buy more than 250 square metres of land without getting permission from the State," he said.
A confident Gen Khanduri said that the Government has done several good works, which will be highlighted by the party workers during the election campaign, and which would rule out anti-incumbency feelings, if any, in the State. He added that the policies of the Congress, on the other hand, had led to losses for the State.
For instance, when Home Minister P Chidambaram had been Union Minister for Finance, he had curtailed the State's industrial package, which had been okayed by the NDA Government during the tenure of ND Tiwari's Congress State Government to stop the wave of migrations outside Uttarakhand. The package was extended in 2007 only in view of the Assembly elections. Chidambaram's step has put a check on the State's industrial growth because as per norms now, only those industries, which start production, would be entitled to get the benefit of the package. An industry needs two to three years to be established. Hence only a limited number of industries come to Uttarakhand.
Speaking on formation of four new districts - Yamunotri, Kotdwar, Didihaat and Ranikhet, which were announced by the Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' Government, Gen Khanduri said a lot of groundwork like collecting data has to be done in the matter. Officials are busy collecting data and the procedural formalities will be completed soon.
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