Congress misguiding people on taxes, says Avinash Rai Khanna

Palampur, April 5

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Avinash Rai Khanna, state BJP in-charge, today assailed the Congress for misguiding people on the imposition of municipal taxes in the merged areas of Palampur.

Addressing mediapersons here, Khanna said that there was no proposal to levy taxes in the newly merged areas of the Palampur MC. The statement of Palampur MLA Ashish Butail and Congress leader Asha Kumari were far from truth that taxes would be levied on houses, cowsheds, animals, pets, scooters and cars. The government had no such proposal and the Congress was adopting cheap tactics to get political mileage in the MC elections.

Khanna said the BJP would respect the sentiments of people and if any village wanted to go out of the MC limits, the government would go for delimitation. Trilok Kapoor, state general secretary, said one family had ruled Palampur for long but failed to upgrade the municipal council. — OC