On eve of Amit Shah’s visit, Satti hits out at Virbhadra

Tribune News Service

Solan, December 10

BJP state president Satpal Satti today said Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh was indulging in petty politics by levelling unsavoury comments on the BJP while failing to address the crucial issue of development.

Satti, who was here to oversee the arrangements of national president Amit Shah’s visit to the town tomorrow, said the CM did not talk about development as this crucial agenda had taken a back seat in the four-year tenure of the Congress government.

He said the manner in which the CM frequently changed his stand about closing schools having lesser students was an illustration of the lack of vision. He said the CM first announced that schools having fewer students would be closed and later said no school would be closed even if there were less students was an indication of his blurred vision on development.

Satti said the CM did not talk about development works undertaken in the last four years and alleged that the announcements were being made without any budgetary provisions. There was little follow-up of the announcements.

The state president said they would prepare the itinerary for the next Tridev sammelan at the core committee meeting to be held tomorrow as four such programmes were slated to be convened in each parliamentary segment.