Deeply hurt by sinister campaign launched against me: Himachal Speaker Vipin Singh Parmar

Our Correspondent

Palampur, September 10

Vipin Singh Parmar, Speaker of state Assembly, today said that he was deeply hurt by the sinister campaign launched against him by the Congress in Palampur. The party was tarnishing his clean image with an intention of getting political mileage in the Assembly elections due next year, Parmar stated.

“Over the last few days, I have noticed a sinister campaign by some Congress leaders and in a section of the social media, using the same out of context, giving inexplicable political overtones, drawing politically motivated inferences to malign the BJP and me,” Parmar added.

Parmar said he had no role in the incident of manhandling of Congress leader and ex-MLA Jagjivan Pal. He had already condemned the incident and never supported the politics of violence. In fact, it was the result of internal Congress politics in Sulaha and he was unnecessarily being dragged in this controversy.

Parmar said the Congress, which had lost panchayat, BDC and zila parishad elections in Sulaha one by one was frustrated over the development works undertaken by him in the past four years. He disclosed that in a short span of four years three new hospitals were coming up at Thural, Bhawarna and Dheera where he had already made the recruitments of doctors and paramedical staff. Likewise, two new technical institutes were also under construction in the area.

He said Jagjivan Pal remained an MLA for two terms but did nothing for the development of the Sulaha. Though he also served as a CPS the Assembly segment remained neglected. It was during the Jai Ram regime that Sulaha witnessed the overall development. He pointed out that today Sulaha had the best roads in the state, every house had been provided tap drinking water and there was hundred per cent electrification.