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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim at public rallies in Nahan and Mandi last week that hundreds of crores of rupees in flood relief funds allocated to Himachal Pradesh were disbursed indiscriminately by the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu-led state government, has triggered a flurry of counter accusations by Congress leaders.
Having already visited all the Assembly segments under the Kangra Lok Sabha constituency in Himachal Pradesh twice as part of his campaign, Congress candidate Anand Sharma, 71, is busy visiting them once again, but in areas that were not covered during his earlier trips.
As she emerges from an SUV, flanked by two gun-toting paramilitary force personnel, a slogan blares from the dais, a short walk away. “Phool nahin chingari hai…“, says the enthusiastic BJP worker on the mic. Finishes the assembled crowd: “Yeh Bharat ki nari hai.” The implication: “Ranaut is not a flower but a spark, everything an Indian woman should be”.
THAT Himachal Pradesh Congress chief Pratibha Singh is not happy with the state of affairs in the party has been evident since Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu was chosen as the Chief Minister after the Congress won the state Assembly elections last year. The discontent burst into the open during the recent Rajya Sabha elections, when six Congress MLAs cross-voted to help the BJP candidate win, and Pratibha refused to condemn them outright, while her son Vikramaditya, a minister in the Sukhu government, threatened to join the rebels.
The bypolls to six Assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh, fallen vacant following the disqualification of as many Congress MLAs, will be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls on June 1, state’s Chief Electoral Officer Maneesh Garg said Saturday. The counting of votes will be held on June 4.
In the aftermath of the political crisis that engulfed the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh during last month’s Rajya Sabha elections, the party’s high command on Sunday formed a six-member coordination committee to ensure such an episode is not repeated.
With the party’s top leadership deciding to stay away from the event, Congress’s Vikramaditya Singh and Nirmal Khatri were the only party leaders to attend the idol consecration ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on Monday. While Vikramaditya is a minister in the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led Himachal Pradesh government, Khatri is the former Faizabad MP and Uttar Pradesh Congress president.