Kaul Singh hits back, says CM Jai Ram Thakur has become egoistic

Tribune News Service

Mandi, April 16

Agitated by the political attack made by him yesterday, senior Congress leader Kaul Singh Thakur today said that by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has become egoistic because of his official power. Kaul Singh said that the Chief Minister should be decent but in the association of IPH Minister Mahender Singh Thakur, he is behaving in an arrogant way.

The Chief Minister had targeted the Kaul Singh Thakur by saying that he had amassed huge property disproportionate to his known sources of income, which irked Kaul Singh.

Challenges cm to initiate probe

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• The Chief Minister had targeted the Kaul Singh Thakur by saying that he had amassed huge property disproportionate to his known sources of income, which irked Kaul Singh.
• Kaul Singh has now challenged the Chief Minister to initiate inquiry against him over corruption allegations

Addressing a press conference here today, Kaul Singh said that, “The Chief Minister was compromising on corruption after he took the charge of CM office. Health scam occurred in the state during Covid period but he did nothing to punish the guilty. Masks and sanitisers were sold at high prices and medicines, oximeters and ventilators were purchased on high prices. Despite that the Chief Minister had remained mum.

“While targeting me politically at Darang assembly segment in Mandi yesterday, the Chief Minister said that ‘main theth Seraji hun, mujhe mat chhero’ ( I am pure Seraji, do not tease me’). These words of the Chief Minister reflect that he has centered himself only on Seraj. Instead of saying I am a Seraji, the CM should have said I am a Mandyali if he consider himself from Mandi”, said Kaul Singh.

Kaul Singh challenged the Chief Minister to initiate inquiry against him over corruption allegations. “If the Chief Minister has sufficient evidence against me that I have disproportionate property, then why he was silent for the last three years. I dare him to initiate an inquiry against me to prove his allegations. The BJP had produced chargesheet against Congress leaders in the state but why the Chief Minister did not act over the chargesheet to take action against Congress leaders to prove the corruption charges leveled by the BJP”, Kaul Singh said.

He said that the Jai Ram Thakur-led state government was biased on development issue and was focusing on Seraj and Dharampur assembly segments in Mandi district. Being a Chief Minister from Mandi, he should ensure development of each assembly segment in Mandi equally without any bias.

Kaul Singh also targeted the IPH Minister Mahender Singh Thakur and alleged scam in Jal-Jeevan Mission in the state.