Himachal Pradesh Winter Session: BJP gears up to challenge Congress

Leader of the Opposition and former chief minister Jai Ram Thakur arrived at Kangra airport on Wednesday morning to participate in the winter session of the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha.

The winter session begins today.

Thakur reached here from Delhi after meeting BJP president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, where he discussed the slow pace of post-monsoon restoration works in the state and sought central grants for relief and rehabilitation.

He said the BJP has finalised its strategy to corner the government in the Assembly.

“We will raise every issue concerning the common people and will definitely expose the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu government, which has failed on all fronts,” he said.

Talking to The Tribune, he said that poor law and order; the government's confrontation with the State Election Commission over panchayat elections; the unnecessary invoking of the Disaster Management Act just to postpone the PRI elections; the infiltration of drugs in the hill state, particularly in educational institutes; and poor fiscal management are some of the major issues that we will raise in the Vidhan Sabha in the interest of the public.

He also accused the Congress regime of “near bankruptcy” and alleged that poor fiscal management had forced the state to withhold payments to contractors, delay pensions and medical reimbursements of retirees and stop dearness allowance dues of employees.

“The time is not far when people will show the Congress government the door. A new dawn of development will rise in Himachal Pradesh,” he said, adding that the BJP stands firmly with the people affected by the recent disaster.