I am targeted... Aggarwal submits resignation to CM after widespread protests
BJP MLA from Rishikesh and Finance, Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister in the Dhami government, Premchand Agarwal has resigned from his post. Premchand Agarwal held a press conference on Sunday and announced his resignation from his post. During this, he also became emotional.
He said that I am being targeted, and my words were presented in a distorted manner.
Premchand Agarwal said that I have always worked for the development of this state. I have also been beaten with sticks for the formation of the state. I have been a state agitator. I have never given any wrong statement about the hills and plains,
But I am sad that I was dragged into these controversies. This is the reason why I am resigning from my post today.
Aggarwal submits resignation after widespread protests
Actually, Premchand Agarwal made such a statement inside the House during the budget session of Uttarakhand, after which there was a political earthquake in Uttarakhand. Premchand Agarwal had made a comment on the hills inside the House, after which not only the Congress, but also the state agitators, ex-servicemen and women on the streets, as well as the common people, protested against that comment of Premchand Agarwal.
Agarwal statement inside the House during the budget session of Uttarakhand
The protest was such that the party organization and the government went on the back foot. The heat of this matter reached from Dehradun to Delhi, so much so that Premchand Agarwal had to resign from his post.
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Actually, Premchand Agarwal has no new connection with controversies. He has always been in the news due to some statement or other work, whether it is the matter of back door recruitment in the Uttarakhand Assembly, or the matter of scuffle with a common citizen on the road at Rishikesh Tapovan.
Apart from this, Premchand Agarwal also made some such statements in the Rishikesh Municipal Corporation elections, which started facing a lot of opposition.
Summary
Premchand Agarwal has also been in controversies regarding the matter of cutting trees for a resort being built by his son in Rishikesh, or the matter of appointing his son to the post of assistant engineer against the rules when he was the speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly.
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The matter of Premchand Agarwal giving a job to his son Piyush by Uttarakhand Ex-Serviceman Welfare Corporation Limited i.e. UPNL against the rules had also heated up, after which Premchand Agarwal had to come on the back foot.
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