Dehradun Mar 30 PTI The Uttarakhand government has revised old age pension widow pension and pension for the physically challenged from Rs 1200 per month to Rs 1400 according to an orderThe old age pension will now be paid to both husband and wife the order issued on March 29 said The state BJP unit described the decision as historic and said the Pushkar Singh Dhami government is working in mission mode to fulfil all the commitments made to people By deciding to set up a high-powered committee to draft a Uniform Civil Code at the very first meeting of the Cabinet the Dhami government had begun to deliver on its pre-poll promises from day one state BJP media in-charge Manveer Chauhan saidRevision of pensions for the old widows and the physically challenged is another historic decision of the state government from which thousands of people will benefit he said PTI ALM ALM ANB ANB
Dehradun Feb 26 PTI The BJP here on Saturday demanded from the Congress a public apology for making viral a fake video purportedly showing tampering of postal ballots The video allegedly showed a man wearing a military uniform tampering with the postal ballots The Kumaon regiment in an official reply to the Election Commission has said that the video is not from any of the army units in Pithoragarh district Pradesh BJP media in-charge Manveer Chauhan said in a statement here The reply of the Kumaon regiment to the EC makes it clear that the Congress was insulting the armed forces by saying that the video was of some army unit he said Congress candidate from Didihat in Pithoragarh district had lodged a complaint with the police earlier suspecting that the video was of an army unit located in the constituency Senior Congress leader Harish Rawat was the first to share the video on his Twitter handle and Facebook A Congress delegation led by Pradesh Congress president Ganesh Godiyal had also formally urged the chief electoral officer Saujanya to examine the video The CEO had then sought a reply from the Pithoragarh District Magistrate on it after talking to officers at army units in the area PTI ALM VN VN
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