CM’s tenure marred by graft, non-performance: Satti

Tribune Reporters

Una, July 27

BJP workers today organised protests against the state government at various places and burnt the effigies of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh alleging total failure of the law and order machinery and growing mafia rule in the state. The protests were organised at polling station level on a call by the state party organisation.

Party workers raised slogans against the state government and burnt the effigies of the Chief Minister. Una MLA and BJP state president Satpal Singh Satti began the protests from his own panchayat Jalgran Tabba near Una and later joined similar protests in about half a dozen panchayats.

Speaking at Jalgran Tabba, Satti alleged that Virbhadra’s current tenure was marred with corruption, non-performance and rule of mafia under political patronage, while the state of law and order had been proved by the manner in which the Kotkhai rape and murder case was handled by the government and the police in protecting and shielding the main accused.

Satti claimed that the Kotkhai episode had resulted in people losing their confidence in the Congress and their leadership in the state. He alleged that while the image of the state was getting a beating at the national level, the CM was adamant in protecting his chair, unlike Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, who preferred to put his portfolio at risk on charges of corruption of his coalition partner.

Similar protests were witnessed at Kutlehar under the leadership of BJP MLA Virender Kanwar besides in the Gagret, Haroli and Chintpurni segments by respective BJP block-level leaders.

CM’s effigies burnt

Hamirpur: The women cell of the BJP burnt the effigies of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh at all polling booths of the district today.

Anil Thakur, BJP district president, claimed that people were fed up with the sorry state of law and order prevailing in the state. He said the CM should resign on moral grounds or the Congress leadership should replace him.

Mandi: BJP workers burnt the effigy of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh at various places in different part of the district to express their ire against the state government over the Kotkhai gang-rape and murder.

It was a statewide call of the party to pressurise the Chief Minister to resign. Chief Minister’s effigies were burnt at Padhar, Joginder Nagar, Sundernagar, Seraj and few other areas.