Uttarakhand’s forest minister says, he’ll speak to Yogi Adityanath on Garhwaliji’s family’s eviction issue

The forest minister of Uttarakhand Dr. Harak Singh Rawat has assured that once he receives the copy of the notice and other relevant papers from the family of late Garhwaliji or the department concerned he will take up the issue in all earnestness with the government of Uttar Pradesh by confabulating with the saffron clad chief minister Yogi Aditya Nath who also primarily belongs to Pauri Garhwal district.

These days there is tremendous hue and cry over the issue of the stepmotherly treatment being meted out to the third generation family of a great revolutionery freedom fighter and legend Vir Chandra Singh Garhwali who alongwith his platoon was imprisoned for life in Abattabad prison, Pakistan n later in Naini Jail for not obeying the orders of the then general Ricket of British origin who ordered them to fire on the armless Pathan freedom fighters in Kinari Bazaar in Peshawar, Pakistan led by frontior Gandhi late Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan.

After his release from the jail Garhwali stayed in Anand Bhawan n Sabarmati Ashram with his family in distressbut never asked for favors or concessions. He was even asked for his induction in the union cabinet by prime ministerJawahar Lal Nehru but Garhwaliji refused.

In the eighties Garhwali was alloted 10 acres of land in Haldukhata, Kotdwara, Bhaver which cannot be renewed due to the death of both of his sons Anand and Mohan who lived in great financial agony alongwith their families after Garhwaliji’s sad demise.

Since the land was allotted on lease for 90 years by the then UP government during the undivided UP era which could not be renewed by his sons who are now dead, the forest department has issued eviction notices to the third generation family of Late Vir Chandra Singh Garhwali after being constantly harrassed physically, mentally and psychologically.

The furious n annoyed family members say that while on the one hand the Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand governments and even the prime minister give number of assurances of starting new schemes in Garhwaliji’s name to derive political advantage, on the other hand his family members are being constantly harrased and victimised.

The family says : if the land had been allotted to them why is it not being registered in Chandra Singh Garhwali’s family’s name and why are we being evicted ? There is tremendous condemnation on social media regarding the harrasment being meted out to the family of a revolutionery freedom fighter who dedicated his whole life for freeing the country from the foreign British yoke.

The news has become viral and the government has not issued any statement in this regard except the Uttarakhand forest minister Harak Sigh waiting for the necessary documents to further pursue the matter with the UP CM Yogi Aditya Nath. Sounds shocking indeed?