Convene budget session in Dharamsala: BJP leader

Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, January 21

Former minister and senior BJP leader Kishan Kapoor today alleged that the Congress government was not serious about establishing Dharamsala a winter capital.

The announcement was made to make up for the damage the government had done by neglecting the area for four years. “If the present government is serious about establishing a second capital, it should immediately issue a notification and make all ministers, officers, including the Chief Secretary, Secretaries and department heads sit here this winter,” Kapoor said.

He also demanded that the budget session should also be held in Dharamsala. Kapoor said most projects had failed to see the light of day. Initially, Urban Development Minister Sudhir Sharma, who represents the area had announced monorail for Dharamsala. Then foundation stones of an IT park and ropeways from Dharamsala to McLeodganj and Chamunda to Himani Chamunda were laid by the Chief Minister. However, no work had been done on these projects to date, he said. The projects that were started by the previous government and would have benefitted the people of the area, including the construction of a road connecting Dharnu to Bhagsusag and Darnu to Triund, had not been touched by the present government, Kapoor alleged.

He said the state government had failed to provide land for Central University Himachal Pradesh (CUHP) in Dharamsala.

During the last Assembly elections, bringing the circuit bench of the Himachal High Court to Dharamsala was on the manifesto of the Congress government. But the Chief Minister refused to set it up here.