Uttarakhand Finance Minister Premchand Aggarwal, whose remarks on people from hill regions sparked a row, resigns, PTI reported.
The anger over Aggarwal's alleged unparliamentary remarks against hill residents intensified with hundreds of people taking to the streets in Gairsain demanding his removal.
Uttarakhand Finance Minister Premchand Aggarwal, whose remarks on people from hill regions sparked a row, resigns, PTI reported.
His resignation came weeks after a controversy sparked by his speech during the state budget session, where he criticized the people of the hills and claimed that the state was not just for the ‘pahadis’ (people from the hills).
The anger over Aggarwal's alleged unparliamentary remarks against hill residents intensified with hundreds of people taking to the streets in Gairsain, the state라이브 바카라 summer capital, demanding his removal.
Men and women from both Kumaon and Garhwal hill districts, holding placards and wearing skullcaps with "Mai Hoon Pahadi" written on them, gathered in Gairsain for a rally organized by the Pahad Swabhiman Manch to call for the minister's dismissal from the state Cabinet.
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