Jai Ram hits out at Sukhu over corruption
Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday made a blistering attack on the state government for deceiving the people of state, women in particular through the Indira Gandhi Pyari Behna Mahila Samman Nidhi. He charged the government with shielding the corrupt.
“The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has already made a written complaint to the Election Commission. Party will again complain to the Election Commission since chief minister (CM) Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu paid two hoots and announced to pay ₹1,500 monthly honorarium,” Thakur, addressing media in Shimla, said.
“We are not against implementation of the Old Pension Scheme; Congress is trying to mislead the people of the state,” he added.
Dubbing the Sukhu-led government “ineffective”, Jai Ram said, “People of the state are unhappy with the anti-people stance of the government.”
“Deputy CM Mukesh Agnihotri is repeatedly claiming that there is no threat to his government,” he noted, questioning the need for such clarifications.
Pratibha dubs former CM ‘liar’
Meanwhile, Congress’ state unit chief Pratibha Singh, who is also the member of Parliament from
Mandi, on Wednesday accused Jai Ram of lying and making misleading remarks over “lopsided approach in the development works of Mandi”.
Singh said barring two assembly segments, the development in Mandi had come to grinding halt under Jai Ram’s regime.
“It’s rather the Congress government, which accelerated developmental works in Mandi,” she said, terming former CM’s allegation that the Congress government of was discriminating against Mandi as completely false. Pratibha said the party will chalk out the strategy for the elections in Mandi polls in an April 19 meeting.
The leader said the Congress has fielded a young, hard-working and experienced candidate in the form of public works minister Vikramaditya Singh, who is currently serving as the MLA from Shimla Rural in the state government.
The leader reflected on her connection with Mandi, saying it’s both her place of birth and workplace of her and her family. He said her husband and former CM Virbhadra Singh carried out many development works in the area.