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Synopsis
Former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, in an exclusive interview on Monday, dismissed recent reports that alleged it was the displeasure of the seer community that precipitated his removal as CM, bringing in Tirath Singh Rawat in his place.
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(This story originally appeared in on May 11, 2021)Former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, in an exclusive interview to on Monday, dismissed recent reports that alleged it was the displeasure of the seer community that precipitated his removal as CM, bringing in Tirath Singh Rawat in his place.
There has been swirling talk of late that it was because Trivendra Rawat wanted to go ahead with a symbolic Maha Kumbh in view of the Covid-19 threat that he fell foul of the sadhu samaj, who in turn put pressure for his ouster. I don t think the akhadas were displeased with me, he said. The seers understood the urgency of the pandemic and were ready to go ahead with whatever format of Kumbh t
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DEHRADUN: Former Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, in an exclusive interview to on Monday, dismissed recent reports that alleged it was the displeasure of the seer community that precipitated his removal as CM, bringing in Tirath Singh Rawat in his place.
There has been swirling talk of late that it was because Trivendra Rawat wanted to go ahead with a symbolic Maha Kumbh in view of the Covid-19 threat that he fell foul of the sadhu samaj, who in turn put pressure for his ouster. I don t think the akhadas were displeased with me, he said. The seers understood the urgency of the pandemic and were ready to go ahead with whatever format of Kumbh the situation allowed.
ISSUE DATE: May 17, 2021
UPDATED: May 7, 2021 23:36 IST
Staff at the Ghazipur crematorium in Delhi cart in fresh logs as
funeral pyres burn all around them (Rajk Raj/ Getty Images)
The second wave of Covid-19 is still cresting but by now we have all been touched by its terrors, and all too many of us by its sorrows and the dismal realisation that we are in the midst of a recurring nightmare, a tragedy foretold. Here, we expose the sorry tale of neglect, apathy and failure of our political leadership. The institutional collapse and bureaucratic cowardice that facilitated super-spreader religious festivals and the political carnival of an eight-phase election campaign even as the second wave of a pandemic was breaking. The narcissism that enabled our leadership to ignore the warnings of expert groups. Their inability to form bipartisan alliances between the Centre and the states in the middle of a national calamity. Now that some of the loudest voices in the land have gone quiet, t