Fmr CM Harish Rawat want’s to see Rahul as the next PM. Says, will quit politics, thereafter ?

Having lost from two legislative constituencies in Uttarakhand while being the care taker chief minister in 2017 and also being responsible for the most disgusting defeat of Congress giving 57 lawmakers to BJP, Harish Rawat is today the most mobile politician of Uttarakhand who despite being a septuagenerian has no regrets whatsoever for the poor show of his party in the preceding state elections and wanted to revive the party organisation to the utmost despite his being sidelined by the incumbent party chief Pritam Singh and confronting accusations of running a parrallel organisation in the18 year old state.

Starting his political career from the grass roots during the eighties by being the elected Pradhan of his village Rawat reached the top slot as the state CM in 2016 before being state minister twice at the centre and after replacing Vijay Bahuguna.

His over emphasising clout as a chief minister led to the defection of 11 Congress MLAs n ministers to BJP resulting in a political upheaval which he survived after tremendous efforts and manipulations but finally giving up to the designs of the centrally ruled BJP.

Rawat today is alone with handful of his old coterie visiting every marriage function, birthday party and obituaries including organising Mango, Kaafal and Uttarakhand delicacies’ parties in order to win the hearts of the people in general and his partymen in particular through this unique n widespread PR exercise.

The politician who addresses the Congress Party and the Nehru Gandhi family as his Godmother is so grateful n obliged by his successive poltical elevations that he has no words of gratitude to be accorded to late Indira, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul without whom he would have been nothing but just a common man.

Having the immense liking and adoration for his leader Rahul Gandhi, an erudite leader himself, Rawat has vowed that he would continue to work tirelessly for strengthening the Congress Party and the hands of Rahul Gandhi till the latter becomes the prime minister of the country. He assured that he would retire from active politics, on the day the Nehru Gandhi Scion reaches the top slot of the nation as the prime minister.

Highly optimistic of replacing Narendra Modi as the prime minister of the country, Rawat says that not only will the entire non BJP opposition parties, national as well as the regional outfits would come together before 2019 but would also accept Rahul Gandhi as the non BJP conglomeration’s leader as Congress is bound to win hands down, as the single largest party of the country.

Harish Rawat questions the political forces at the centre the reasons behind not appointing the LOK PAL/ LOKAYUKT in Uttarakhand despite his personal recommendation to the state governor Dr. K. K. Paul while he was the CM during 2016, 17.

He emphatically says that this truth should be revealed at all costs. On the question of openly safeguarding the current CM TSR who was in his capacity as the then agricultural minister allegedly involved in the controvertial DHENCHA SEEDS SCANDAL, Rawat says that by falsely implicating him( TSR) he did’nt want to establish a wrong and unjustifiable precedent in the state’s ruling political fraternity and bureaucracy as had he done that with the feeling of any political prejudice, vendetta or vindictive attitude the state would have suffered badly in terms of its overall development as no politician, CM or minister would have then used their pen to sign any project fearing of impending apprehensions of being tracked or involved in financial irregularities in future.

According to Rawat , TSR’s alleged involvement in the seed scam was not proved nor were there any prima facie evidence.

Still on a move in the state and Delhi in various party and personal social events and protest demonstrations Harish Rawat seems to be full of energy, potential and enthusiam still hopeful to stage a re come back in 2022 as the state’s CM say political analysts as there is always a change in Uttarakhand after every election, come what may.

Moreover there are unabated mistakes and incidents happening under the present saffron political dispensation going against its reputation which the state Congress in general and Harish Rawat in particular are trying to exploit to their best possible advantage.

On the education front Harish Rawat claims to have accorded 18000 jobs in education department and having cleared 50% of the SC/ ST job quota by employing the peoole of the lowest ebb of the society.

On the question of unemplyment he boasts of bringing down the unemployment figure to 2.5% which used to be at 12% during his tenure.

He assured the people of the state that he will for sure declare Gairsain as the permanent capital of Uttarakhand provided his party’s government assumes office in Uttarakhand in 2022.

Harish Rawat was answering to the questions of several senior journalists viz: Vinod Agnihotri, Apoorva Joshi, Prem Bharadwaj and Gunjan Kumar at the talk on table programme of SUNDAY POST at its NOIDA office on 12th June, Thursday.

He spoke for four hours together in a sequential mode without feeling tired even facing the most adverse questions on various socio economical and political subjects of the centre and state.

The crux of the interview was that despite losing from the two assembly segments in Uttarakhand and even having been ignored by his own party president of the state Rawat by being extremely hectic and mobile in the socio political activities and party programmes is eyeing on the state’s CM’s chair and itsstill desirous to grab it in 2022 despite having crossed 70 years of age. His proactive role has infact compelled his own partymen to revive the once defunct Congress organisation in the state.

Meanwhile there is news that the Congress President Rahul Gandhi has nominated Harish Rawat as the AICC general secretary and also the member of the highest decision making body of the party, the Congress Working Committee.