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BJP National President Shri Amit Shah on 02 November, 2017 launched attack on the incumbent Himachal Chief Minister and Congress leader Virbhadra Singh and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi.
Flanked by senior BJP leaders and public r6epresentatives Shri Amit Shah while addressing a gathering in Hamirpur said Congress leaders were seeking accountability from the government at the Centre but their own party was deeply entrenched in scandals when they were in power.
“During Congress tenure in Delhi, scandals worth Rs 12 lakh crore surfaced. Whether it was ISRO, 2G scam, helicopter scam, CWG scam, Adarsh scam, or coal scam, Congress leaders did not spare any sector,” said Shri Shah while addressing a rally from Gandhi chowk. Referring to the infamous Gudia rape case in Shimla’s Kotkhai, Shri Shah blamed Virbhadra for pushing the state to a poor 17th rank in the country in crime rates.
Referring to Rahul, he said, “I have heard Rahul baba’s speeches in which he is claiming that Congress is going to form the government in Gujarat. I can only say Rahul baba is daydreaming.” He said the BJP has been winning in other states one after another and will continue its winning streak under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Claiming that Shri Dhumal was all set to become the next chief minister of Himachal Pradesh as BJP was going to win the election, he exhorted the gathering to give a massive mandate to the party. “The state can only progress if it has the BJP government in the state as well as in the Centre. You have been giving the mandate to the BJP and Congress alternatively, that’s why the progress and development could not be consistent,” he said.
While recalling contribution of the central government Shri Shah mentioned that during Modi’s tenure a grant of Rs 1,15,846 crore was given to the hill state which was two and a half times more than what the state got during UPA government’s tenure. Shah also addressed a rally at Mandi and attacked Rahul and the Congress for corruption and bringing the development to halt.
Thunag in Mandi district
‘Congress did nothing for the country under four generations of dynastic rule of Gandhi-Nehru family’ Himachal
BJP National President Shri Amit Shah on 02 November, 2017 lashed out at Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, accusing them of shielding the corrupt in the state and perpetuating “mafia raj”.
During the last five years, development has come to a halt and people have been forced to live under the shadow of terror due to various mafias “flourishing” under the patronage of the Congress party and its leaders, he told in a rally at Thunag in Seraj constituency in Mandi district. “The Congress did nothing for the country under four generations of dynastic rule of the Gandhi-Nehru family and today Rahul baba is asking for accountability from the Modi government, Shri Shah said.
Whatever the BJP has done was beyond the capacity of the Congress and that was why Gandhi was making false allegations against the central government, he said, adding that the Congress vice president and the chief minister were shielding the corrupt in the state and perpetuating “mafia raj”.
Polling for the 68-member Himachal Pradesh Assembly will take place on November nine and counting of votes will be held on December 18.
Shri Shah said there was “phenomenal” and “amazing” rise in the assets of the chief minister’s son Vikramaditya Singh from Rs 1.79 crore to Rs 84 crore during the Congress rule in the last five years and now it was for Gandhi to ask from Singh how he got the money.
He said that the Congress government failed miserably on the law and order front and the situation was so grim that even senior police officers were in jail in connection with the custodial death of a man in infamous Gudiya rape and murder case in Kotkhai in upper Himachal Pradesh. This incident has shamed the state government and the people would not forgive the Congress for such heinous act, he said. Alleging slow pace and tardy implementation of developmental projects, the BJP National President said the state government had failed to prepare detailed project reports for 71 national highways sanctioned by the Union government.
Early completion of the exercise would have brought in investment worth crore of rupees, besides improving connectivity in the hill state, he said. “How can the Congress government boast of development when mega projects are lying unimplemented due to laxity on the part of the government,” he questioned. He asked the people in Himachal Pradesh to elect a BJP government to change the fortunes and get rid of the Congress misrule.
Shri Shah said that his party has reposed faith in the leadership of Shri Prem Kumar Dhumal and expressed confidence that the state would witness speedy development from his able guidance and rich experience.