Kotdwar, April 28: Five years after Uttarakhand government announced that the ancestral house of former chief minister of undivided Uttar Pradesh H N Bahuguna would be converted into a museum, the locked building is lying in utter neglect, his son claimed.
Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister N D Tiwari had in 2006 said that Bahuguna”s ancestral house at Budhari village of Kotdwar area would be developed as a national museum.
Following the announcement, the district administration locked the door. Later, the District Magistrate prepared a proposal regarding repair of the house and develop it as a national museum which was sent to the government in 2008.
Lok Sabha MP and Bahuguna”s son Vijay Bahuguna said that the government has so far “failed to move even an inch” on the proposal and the house was not even repaired.
Zila Panchayat member of Pauri Bhuvnesh Kharakwal alleged that the government was not sincere about efforts to retain the memory of prominent personalities of the area.
Vijay said his father”s birth anniversary was celebrated on April 25 at various places but his ancestral house remained in darkness on that day.
“If the government cannot take care of his house, it should open the lock so that other people can clean it and gather on important days to pay tributes to him,” he said.
——–PTI