Kaul targets CM over growth bias

Tribune News Service

Mandi, August 1

Congress leader Kaul Singh targeted Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur over development issues here today.

Addressing a press conference, he said, “The Chief Minister has focused only on two Assembly segments in Mandi district, Seraj, his home constituency, and Dharampur, the home segment of Jal Shakti Minister Mahender Singh Thakur, in three years and ignored the eight segments of Mandi.”

Kaul Singh said Thakur was an inexperienced Chief Minister, who is dominated by the Jal Shakti Minister.

Corruption prevailed everywhere during the BJP regime be it the PWD, Jal Shakti Department, Health Department and any other department, while the Chief Minister was keeping mum.

He said tarring and metalling work was being done on the roads at a few places but the quality of the work was poor. As a result, the roads was being damaged soon. The Chief Minister should conduct an inquiry and take action against erring contractors or officials.

“The Director, Health, was arrested on corruption charges at the time of Covid outbreak but till now nothing has been done to punish the guilty. Similarly, there is mass corruption in the Jal Shakti Department as well as in other departments but the Chief Minister is doing nothing to check the menace,” he added.

“Now as byelection to Mandi is approaching, the Chief Minister is visiting each segment to inaugurate and lay foundation stones of development works to lure the voters. A majority of works, which Chief Minster had inaugurated in Mandi recently, were started during the Congress regime,” he said.

He said the Congress would raise all public issues like corruption, inflation and unemployment.