By Shishir Prashant 
PrashantNews
Are some people living in the plains of Uttarakhand facing discrimination? Who is the real domicile of Uttarakhand?
These issues have come back to haunt the hill state time and time again especially when Uttarakhand is celebrating its silver jubilee these days.
The issue also repeatedly echoed during the three-day special Vidhan Sabha session in Dehradun which concluded on Wednesday.
Leading the charge, BSP MLA Shahzad from Laksar said that he failed to understand why the children from the plains are not getting government jobs. Are they less competent?
Shahzad also took the MLAs from the hilly terrain to task saying they have constructed homes in Dehradun and Haldwani suggesting they are distancing themselves from the hills and occupying the lands in the plains. He openly said in the House that Asha Nautiyal is the MLA of Kedarnath and has given the address of Dehradun’s Jogiwala area amid the sound of laughter in the House.
Finding herself in awkward situation, Nautiyal gave her explanation saying she lives mostly in her constituency in Kedarnath.
Munna Singh Chauhan, a BJP MLA from Vikasnagar, however, tried to defend the domicile issue saying the demography in Jaunsar-Chakrata area remained undisturbed due to the tough land laws.
But Kichcha MLA Tilak Raj Behad (Congress) tried to provide a solution to the tough domicile issue saying all those people who were residents till Nov 9, 2000 when the state was formed, should be considered as permanent residents or domiciles. Behad also said Dehradun should be made permanent capital of Uttarakhand as the government has already spent crores of rupees on the Doon valley in the past 25 years.
Interestingly, several BJP and Congress leaders are desperate to contest elections from the plains. Some top leaders like former chief ministers Trivendra Singh Rawat, Harish Rawat and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishan have already made the plains as their permanent homes.
Recently, posters of some politicians who are rarely seen in the hills were plastered on the walls asking people to find their whereabouts.