Dehra Dun: With just two days left for the campaign to end for the January 30 Uttarakhand Assembly polls, the election scenario in the state on Thursday hotted up with the ruling BJP raking up the issue of Bofors gun deal and other scandals.

On the other hand, Congress attacked BJP on changing chief ministers frequently to hide its alleged scams and asked the people to vote for it on development plank. The party promised to give industry status to tourism sector.

In a renewed campaign through local media and pamphlets, the ruling BJP highlighted the alleged Bofors scam where it alleged that the Swedish government paid a kickback of Rs 64 crore to clinch the gun deal during the Rajiv Gandhi government. The party also highlighted other scandals like Rs 1.76 lakh 2G spectrum and Rs 70,000 commonwealth games and Adarsha society scam.

Dehra Dun: With just two days left for the campaign to end for the January 30 Uttarakhand Assembly polls, the election scenario in the state on Thursday hotted up with the ruling BJP raking up the issue of Bofors gun deal and other scandals.

On the other hand, Congress attacked BJP on changing chief ministers frequently to hide its alleged scams and asked the people to vote for it on development plank. The party promised to give industry status to tourism sector.

In a renewed campaign through local media and pamphlets, the ruling BJP highlighted the alleged Bofors scam where it alleged that the Swedish government paid a kickback of Rs 64 crore to clinch the gun deal during the Rajiv Gandhi government. The party also highlighted other scandals like Rs 1.76 lakh 2G spectrum and Rs 70,000 commonwealth games and Adarsha society scam.

A spokesman of the Maniur people's party (MPP) told mediapersons that the Congress had failed to deliver the results during its last ten-year rule.

BJP spokesperson Prakash Javedkar had earlier said that Manipur had witnessed a spurt in corruption and criminal activities during the last ten-year Congress rule.

Alleging that the government remained silent about incidents like the one in which state advocate general Koteshore Singh was shot at by a minister during a tour and the killing of a boy by a minister's son, he asked "Was there at all any government in the state?"

Demanding action against the culprits, he said if the BJP was voted to power it would put the guilty behind bars besides correcting the system.

PTI