BJP govt ignored Kangra in last four years: Agnihotri

Procurement centres lack infra

Mukesh Agnihotri said that the state government was not concerned about the paddy of farmers of the border areas of the state. They are suffering as Punjab has closed down its mandis for Himachal farmers. The FCI procurement centres set in the state in a huff lacked infrastructure, he alleged.

Tribune News Service

Dharamsala, October 26

CLP leader Mukesh Agnihotri today campaigned for the party candidate Bhawani Singh Pathania in Fatehpur Assembly byelections. While addressing public rallies in Fatehpur, Agnihotri alleged that the Kangra district and particularly the Fatehpur Assembly constituency had been ignored by the present BJP government in the last four years.

The CLP leader alleged that the Chief Engineer project office that was in Fatehpur Assembly constituency was shifted to Mandi district. The BJP ministers, who were now seeking votes in Fatehpur, should answer why the government officers were shifted out of the area.

Agnihotri said most of the development projects in Kangra district had come to a standstill. The expansion of Gaggal airport was hanging fire, the campus of Central University Himachal Pradesh has not been brought up despite the fact that there were BJP government in the state and at the Centre and the mid Himalayan project of forest department that was running under the aegis of World Bank in Kangra district had failed to make any headway. The BJP did not have a single project that it can take credit of having brought up in Kangra in the last four years, Agnihotri alleged.

Agnihotri alleged that since the BJP has not done anything in the last four years the Chief Minister was trying to invoke regionalism in the Mandi district to garner votes during the Mandi parliamentary polls.

He alleged that the major issue before the people of the state was price rise. The prices of fuel, LPG, edible oils have almost doubled in the last four months. The BJP leaders, who used to take to roads while in opposition, are now mute spectators. The price rise has affected every section of the society and people should vote against BJP in the byelections to teach party a lesson.

Later, while talking to newsmen, Agnihotri said that the state government was not concerned about the paddy of farmers of the border areas of the state who are suffering as Punjab has closed down its mandis for Himachal farmers. The FCI procurement centres set up in the state in a huff lacked infrastructure and farmers are suffering, he alleged.