Himachal Assembly poll to be fought under Jai Ram Thakur: Rakesh Pathania

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Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, November 18

The BJP will go to the 2022 Assembly elections under the leadership of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur. The minister for forest, sports and youth affairs, Rakesh Pathania said this while talking to newsmen here today.

GSI report within next 10 days: Forest Minister

• The Geological Survey of India (GSI) report regarding the land for the CUHP campus at Jadrangal in Dharamsala to be received within next 10 days.
• The construction of campuses at Jadrangal and Dehra to start simultaneously.
• He will sit in Dharamsala secretariat for one or two days every week, says Forest Minister Pathania

Pathania said that the rumors had been doing the round after the BJP defeat in the byelections that there would be a change in the party leadership in the state. However, all these rumors are baseless. The BJP would try to learn from its mistakes and fight the next elections under the able leadership of Jai Ram Thakur, he said.

The minister today sat in the Dharamsala secretariat and listened to the grievances of common people. It was after a long time that any minister in the current government sat in Dharamsala secretariat. This had been a practice in the previous BJP and Congress governments to make at least one minister sit in Dharamsala secretariat to listen to the grievances of people of lower areas of Himachal. However, this practice was discontinued during the stint of the present government. The matter was taken up during the recent visit of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur to Dharamsala.

He said that the government was bringing a policy to promote horticulture in the lower areas of Himachal soon. The government was working on introducing ‘sada bahar’ variety of mango in Kangra and other lower areas of Himachal. This variety gives crop two times in a year. This would help the farmers who want to take up horticulture in lower areas of Himachal.

The minister also took a meeting with the officials of Smart City Dharamsala to review the progress under the Smart city scheme.