BJP will face voters’ ire in Fatehpur: Cong

Nurpur, October 27

Leader of the Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri has accused the government of neglecting Kangra district in the past about four years. The government is anti-Kangra and the neglect of the district will boomerang on the BJP in the Fatehpur byelection, said Agnihotri while canvassing for Congress candidate Bhawani Pathania today.

He alleged that all three Cabinet ministers from Kangra did not protect the interests of the district. They even kept silent when the office of the Engineer-in-Chief (Project) was shifted from Fatehpur to Mandi. “Not even one project has been sanctioned for the district in the past three and a half years. The work on road widening projects worth Rs 65,000 crore and 69 national highway projects announced by the Union government was yet to kick-start due to the apathy of the state government,” he alleged.

Agnihotri said Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur was playing regional politics in his campaigning in the Mandi byelection. He added that the state government had failed to get a financial package or a major development project from the Central Government. “The state is under heavy debt, which is likely to rise to Rs 85,000 crore by the end of the tenure of the BJP government,” he alleged. — OC