Sack Jairam Ramesh For Threatening Uttarakhand: BJP

State party chief Bishan Singh Chufal said, "Jairam Ramesh has tried to damage the federal structure of the country by threatening Uttarakhand to invoke Section 5 of Environment Protection Act.

"We urge Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to remove Ramesh," he told Reporters here.

Section 5 of the Act gives the Centre "power to direct the closure, prohibition or regulation of any industry".

Chufal said BJP has taken the threat very seriously and warned if any such attempt is made, the party would oppose it tooth and nail. Read the full report here.

Source: DNA, Dehradun.