Caps a part of Himachali culture, not politics: Jai Ram
MAROON AND GREEN BAND CAPS ARE SEEN AS A SYMBOL OF POLITICAL LOYALTIES IN THE STATE, OF BJP AND CONGRESS, RESPECTIVELY
SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh chief minister, Jai Ram Thakur, while addressing a gathering at Circuit House in Solan on Sunday, said the time has come to bid a farewell to cap politics in the state.
In Himachal, maroon and green band caps are seen as a symbol of political loyalties.
“Former chief minister Virbhadra Singh and his supporters are usually seen wearing a green band cap and were considered as having the Congress ideology whereas the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and supporters adorned a maroon band cap. Over the years these two colours symbolise the two different political alignments, said the CM.
I won't indulge myself in the cap politics, Thakur said.
“I have had stopped wearing the cap, thereby putting an end to cap politics,” he added.
He said the cap is an inseparable part of Himachal’s culture but no more a symbol of regional divide of upper and lower Himachal as was considered during the Congress regime.
The CM said that the days of those serving for an individual and not for the government were over. The past is not to be recalled, he said as whatever had happened in the previous government was the worst period of intolerance and vendetta politics.
The CM added that his government has no place for vendetta politics and those who would be wrong anywhere while discharging their duties won't be spared.
Cap politics witnessed the war of words, when Virbhadra Singh had rejected the maroon band cap offered by his cabinet colleague Kaul Singh Thakur in a government function in the presence of Union health minister JP Nadda.