Congress govt biased against Kangra, development works hit: Parmar

Palampur, January 13

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Sullah MLA Vipin Singh Parmar yesterday alleged that the Congress government had been metting out a step-motherly treatment to Kangra district. He said that since the day the Congress came to power, all development activities in the district have come to a standstill in the absence of an adequate budget.

Parmar, while addressing mediapersons here, said that the condition of most of the roads in the district had worsened in the past one year. The roads damaged during the monsoon last year were yet to be repaired. Despite repeated complaints on the CM helpline and to the Public Works Department, the damaged roads had not been repaired. Similar was the situation in the Jal Shakti Department.

Parmar said that the government was facing a financial crisis and “it has no money even to pay salaries to outsourced staff and daily wage workers”. He added that sanitary workers of Tanda Medical College, had gone on strike because they had not been paid salaries.

He said that the Ayushman Bharat Yojana of the Central Government and the Himcare health scheme launched by the previous BJP government had virtually discontinued for want of funds. “The state government has failed to clear over Rs 100 crore dues of various hospitals in the state where people get treatment under the Himcare scheme. Many private hospitals have discontinued the schemes. The previous BJP government was paying Rs 3,000 per month to patients suffering from eight critical diseases for the purchase of medicines but the Congress government stopped the facility for the past six months,” he added.

Parmar said that the Congress had come to power by giving 10 false guarantees given to people but not fulfilled even one.