{"id":8230,"date":"2026-02-21T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/?p=8230"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:30:50","slug":"ukd-appeals-to-youth-to-join-hands-with-spirit-of-statehood-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenortherngazette.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/ukd-appeals-to-youth-to-join-hands-with-spirit-of-statehood-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"UKD appeals to youth to join hands with spirit of statehood movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UKD appeals to youth to join hands with spirit of statehood movement<\/p>\n<p>B.D.Kasniyal<\/p>\n<p>Pithoragarh, Feb 21<\/p>\n<p>Ashish Negi, a youth leader of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) appealed to the youth of the state to come forward to save the basic assets of Uttarakhand as they had come unitedly during statehood movement to create the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state of Uttarakhand requires a new movement to own it&#8217;s natural properties for it\u2019s \u00a0coming generations so that they could\u00a0 have abundance of nature what our ancestors had,&#8221;said the UKD youth wing leader while addressing party workers here today.<\/p>\n<p>Negi was speaking\u00a0at a rally organised by Uttarakhand Kranti Dal at Gandhi chowk in of Pithoragarh today.&#8221; Until the educated youths will not feel importance of prosperity of next generation based on its natural resources and feel proud of their own resources, we cannot teach our present\u00a0and coming generations self- respect, &#8220;said Negi.<\/p>\n<p>Kashi Singh Airy one of the veteran leader and top leader of the statehood movement has said that due to wrong policies of the last 25 years governments in the state, the state today is under a debt of\u00a0 Rs.85000 crore. &#8220;The respective governments could not recover the assets grabbed by UP even today because the mainstream ruling parties in the state in last 25 years had their stakes\u00a0in UP and other states as well.&#8221; These parties have belied the hopes and aspirations of statehood movement and the sacrifices of 42 statehood martyrs,\u201d said Airy.<\/p>\n<p>The youth wing of the party also organised\u00a0a procession in the town, that attracted large number of youth Prominent amongst those who were present were Girish Dora, Ram Singh, city president, Girtish Joshi, city general secretary, Kuldeep Rawat, Deepak Daundiyal, Raja Bisht,\u00a0 Divyanshu Madhwal, Vinod Rawat, Shyam Singh Rawat Ayush Rawat and others .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UKD appeals to youth to join hands with spirit of statehood movement B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Feb 21 Ashish Negi, a youth leader of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) appealed to the youth of the state to come forward to save the basic assets of Uttarakhand as they had come unitedly during statehood movement to create the state. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,33,1284,91,56,59],"tags":[3840,3841,160,3839,3653],"class_list":["post-8230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-politics","category-uttarakhand","tag-asish-negi","tag-kashi-singh-airy","tag-pithoragarh","tag-uttarakhand-kranti-dal-ukd","tag-uttarakhand-statehood-aagitation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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