Sukhu govt failed on disaster management: BJP chief Bindal

State BJP president Rajeev Bindal alleged that the Sukhu government in the state had failed on natural disaster management that hit the state in 2023, 2024 and in the recent monsoon season. While addressing a press conference at organisational district BJP office at Jassur near Nurpur today, he said the government had planned no concrete strategy to rehabilitate disaster victims who were displaced in the rain disasters in the state during the past three years. The victims had neither got any land nor relief for their rehabilitation.

Bindal questioned the state government where the disaster relief fund released by the Modi government had been spent as disaster-affected people had not received adequate relief. “Whether the Central funds were utilised in disbursing salaries to the government employees or misused in political nepotism,” he questioned.

Bindal said the Modi government had allocated funds to the tune of Rs 5,500 crores during the past three years of the Sukhu government regime but now the people of the state were asking the government how the central funds were used.

“The government has raised loans worth Rs 40,000 crore during the past three years, but development activities in the state have come to a halt. The government has abolished 1.50 lakh government posts across the state, closed functional government institutions and was on a spree to close government schools across the state,” he lamented. He accused the government of misusing disaster relief funds released by the central government.

Bindal said the state election commission was ready to conduct elections of panchayati raj institutions and civic bodies in time but the state government was trying to defer these elections under the pretext of disaster in the state.

Ridiculing the state government for celebrating completion of three years of its present regime, the BJP state chief said that the government had created financial bankruptcy-like conditions during this period and failed to fulfil Congress party’s 10 poll guarantees whereas every section of the society, including employees and pensioners, was fed up with this non-performing government.

On this occasion, Kangra Lok Sabha MP Rajiv Bhardwaj, MLA Sulah Vipin Parmar, MLA Nurpur Ranbir Nikka and former MLA Rakesh Pathania were present.