By means of PTI
DEHRADUN: Gen Bipin Rawat’s more youthful brother Col (retd) Vijay Rawat, who not too long ago joined the BJP, on Sunday stated he isn’t contesting the approaching meeting polls in Uttarakhand.
Col Rawat stated he used to be requested by way of celebration leaders to contest however he stated no to them.
Requested what in the event that they insist on fielding him, he stated 99 according to cent chances are high that that he would with courtesy refuse.
“I’m really not contesting the polls. I’m handiest in serving the folks of Uttarakhand,” Col Rawat stated in an interview to PTI.
Becoming a member of the BJP not up to a month forward of the state meeting polls had given upward thrust to hypothesis within the media that he could be given a price ticket by way of the celebration.
“My goal at the back of becoming a member of the BJP used to be serving other people and now not protecting an place of job or a submit. All through my 34 years within the Military I used to be transferred to other puts. I did not get a possibility to serve other people of my very own state. Now that I’m retired I will be able to do this,” he stated.
“I do not need to be tied as much as a submit. I need to serve other people freely,” he stated.
Col Rawat, who lives in Jaipur after his retirement 5 years in the past, stated Uttarakhand’s tourism doable may also be utilised for producing employment for locals at their properties and prevent migration from the hills.
“With a rising tendency amongst other people dwelling in city spaces to take a wreck and spend a vacation within the unpolluted surroundings of the hills, homestay amenities offered by way of the state executive have an enormous employment technology doable,” he stated.
Yoga, trekking and different journey sports activities is some other space by which there are self-employment alternatives for locals in Uttarakhand, he stated.
Col Rawat stated even CDS Rawat, who died in a helicopter crash, used to be very serving the folks of Uttarakhand from out of doors politics.
“My elder brother had particular building plans able for various spaces of the state together with Almora and Ranikhet,” he stated, including he does not need to discuss him a lot as eager about his death makes him distraught.
CDS Rawat and 13 others had been killed in a helicopter crash in Coonoor in Tamil Nadu on December 8 final 12 months.