BJP’s Kishan Kapoor, Ravi, Pathania file papers

Lalit Mohan

Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, October 20

Three senior BJP leaders — former minister Kishan Kapoor from Dharamsala, former minister and sitting MLA Ravinder Ravi from Dehra and Rakesh Pathania today filed their nomination papers in Kangra district today.

In Dharamsala, Kishan Kapoor addressed the gathering of BJP workers near the secretariat after filing the nomination papers. He alleged that the Congress had failed to fulfil promises made to the people of Dharamsala. Corruption was rampant and new trend of goons beating up political opponents was witnessed in Dharamsala area. A large numbers of BJP workers had gathered near secretariat to greet Kapoor as he came to file the nomination papers.

Besides Kapoor in Dharamsala, three independent candidates — RS Rana, who was claiming to represent the Gorkha community and is president of Punjab, Himachal Gorkha association, Pankaj Kumar and Kamal Chaudhary — filed their nomination papers.

From Dehra, former minister and sitting MLA Ravinder Ravi filed his nomination. Ravinder Ravi was accompanied by the former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal while filing nomination papers. A large number of BJP workers greeted Ravi when he came to file nomination papers.

While addressing the party workers, Ravinder Ravi said that Congress had ignored the Dehra area in the last five years. He said that almost all the facilities from Dehra were shifted to Jawalamukhi by the current government. The current government also did not allow Central University Himachal Pradesh to come up at Dehra, Ravi alleged.

Two independents — Hoshiar Singh, an industrialist, and Sudesh Kumar also filed their nomination papers at Dehra today.

In Nurpur former MLA and senior leader of BJP, Rakesh Pathania filed his nomination papers. Rakesh Pathania was greeted by hundreds of followers and was accompanied by his political friends while filing nomination papers.