MUSSOORIE, March 5 -- A joint meeting was organised in the auditorium of a local hotel, today, by social organisations and statehood agitationists at which an 'Uttarakhand Bachao Sangharsh Samiti' was formed to address various problems of the state.

It was decided at the meeting that, if within 15 days, the government does not sack Minister Prem Chand Aggarwal for 'abusing' the hill people, then the activists of the Samiti would march in large numbers from the martyrs' memorial in Mussoorie to the Chief Minister's residence in Dehradun with torches in their hands. It was said that, if even then the minister is not dismissed, then like the Uttarakhand movement of 1994, an agitation would be launched all over the state for the minister's d...