BJP protests Cong govt’s plan to celebrate two years in office

The district BJP unit today organised a rally in Una city to protest against the Congress government’s plan to celebrate on December 11 its two-year rule in the state. Rajya Sabha MP Sikander Kumar and Lok Sabha MP Anurag Thakur led the protest and Una MLA Satpal Singh Satti and the district BJP leaders and workers participated in it.

Anurag said that the state government had failed to fulfill the poll guarantees the Congress had given before the 2022 Assembly elections but it had burdened people financially by charging hefty power and water bills. He added that the Congress government had discontinued all development works initiated during the previous BJP government.

The Hamirpur MP said that at present, the state was under Rs 97,000 crore debt and if the Congress government managed to complete its full five-year term, the total debt would reach Rs 1.5 lakh crore. No government would be able to run the affairs in the state thereafter, he added.

Anurag said that the Amb-Andaura and Una railway stations in the district had been included in the list of ‘Adarsh’ stations and would be developed to provide better amenities to passengers. He thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for announcing four new Central schools for Himachal Pradesh, three of them in his Hamirpur parliamentary constituency. He added that new Central schools had been announced for Ridi Kutheda in the Jaswan-Paragpur segment, Upper Bhanjal in Gagret and Nandpur in the Chintpurni segment, all of them in the Hamirpur parliamentary segment, while the fourth school had been sanctioned for Thunag in Mandi district.

Sikander Kumar alleged that the Congress government was the weakest ever government in the history of the state. He said that the Congress had announced to provide five lakh jobs to the youth every year, but this guarantee, like others, had remained unfulfilled. He added that the rule of law had ceased to exist in the state and all types of mafias were operating blatantly.

Satti said that illegal mining in the Swan river was going on unabated and the officials concerned were not acting against the mafia. He added that government officials were working on the directions of Congress leaders and BJP workers were being victimised.