"Utttarakhand is known for serious politics.Stopping at a betel shop fora pan, at a shabby tea kiosk for tea or along a busy city road to have a roasted corncob, this is nothing but nautanki of the kind pioneered in Indian politics by former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad whose cult Rawat seems to be following," Pradesh BJP spokesman Munna Singh Chauhan said.
Accusing Rawat of doing nothing on the ground which could lead to real change in the lives of people, he said the health system has collapsed totally.
"Pregnant women are dying due to non-availability of proper medical care.I have heard of at least six such deaths recently. One boy died of snake bite at a Haldwani hospital and another in Uttarkashi recently due to non-availability of anti-venom vaccine," Chauhan said.
"A man died at Doon Medical College here as he could not be put on dialysis due to unavailability of filtered water," the BJP leader said.
He claimed that the Kalsi Chakrata road which is just one-and-a-half-hour drive from the state capital is blocked by debris from landslides for a month, indicating where things stood in terms of development in the state.
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