AAP has overtaken Cong in corruption: Anurag Thakur

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has taken lead in corruption, leaving the Congress behind. MLAs and ministers are leaving AAP while the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister have remained in jail over allegations of corruption, said Hamirpur MP

Anurag Thakur, while talking to mediapersons on the sidelines of a function of a cooperative organisation at Baral village near here today. He was responding to the a question that AAP leader Kailash Gehlot joined the BJP on next day after quitting the party. He alleged that APP had become a den of corruption and common people were suffering during the rule of AAP in Punjab and Delhi.

About the quashing of the appointment of Chief Parliamentary Secretaries (CPSs), Anurag said that the BJP had objected to the appointment of CPSs in the beginning as these were against rules and imposed a burden on the state exchequer. He added that the former CPSs should refund the government money and even the state government should initiate action to get funds reimbursed to the state exchequer.

Anurag said that the state was facing a financial crunch and the appointment of CPSs had added to the trouble. He alleged that the state government had failed on all fronts. He added that even AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge had condemned the working of the Congress governments in Himachal and Karnataka.

He said that Kharge had mentioned that if governments did not have funds, they should not announce or promise what could not be fulfilled. He added that the state government had not given Rs 1,500 per month to women as guaranteed, procured cow dung for Rs 2 per kg and cow milk for Rs 100 per Kg. The Congress government had promised to provide Rs 680 crore as start-up fund but failed to do so, disappointing the youth of the state.

Anurag welcomed the decision of the state government to upgrade the Hamirpur Municipal Council to a municipal corporation. He said that this would bring additional benefits and more development to the area.

Earlier, Anurag attended a function of cooperative societies at Baral village and also visited the house of Vandana Guleria, Zila Parishad member from Mandi district and daughter of former minister Mahender Singh, to pay condolences on the demise of her husband Dinesh Guleria.