Cong leaders flay Mandi Sadar MLA

Tribune News Service

Mandi, October 27

Dipak Sharma, former president of the Mandi District Congress Committee, and Champa Thakur, former Congress candidate from Mandi Sadar, have targeted BJP MLA Anil Sharma over development issues.

Addressing a joint conference, they alleged that BJP MLA Anil Sharma was targeting Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur to hide his own failures as a legislator from Mandi Sadar. The MLA had stated that the state government had stalled the progress of Mandi Sadar Assembly segment.

“Anil Sharma was elected by residents of Mandi Sadar to ensure the development of this Assembly segment but he has failed to do so in the past three years. He is reluctant to raise issues related to development with the state government to satisfy his ego,” they alleged.

Champa and Dipak said the MLA was planning to join the Congress in the run-up to the state Assembly elections of 2022 to grab the ticket from that party, which was not acceptable. In the last Assembly election, Anil had left the Congress to get a ticket from the BJP from Mandi Sadar.

Dipak also targeted Ashray Sharma, the MLA’s son who is the general secretary of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee, over his remarks that his father might contest election from Mandi Sadar on Congress ticket.

Dipak asked Ashray in which capacity was he allocating the Congress ticket to Anil Sharma in advance. It was the prerogative of the Congress party high command to allocate tickets to candidates according to their capability and mass base, they said.