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  • 13 Days Since Salooni Murder, Cong Govt Yet To Meet Victim’s Family: BJP’s Jai Ram Thakur

    13 Days Since Salooni Murder, Cong Govt Yet To Meet Victim’s Family: BJP’s Jai Ram Thakur

    The BJP in Himachal Pradesh on Monday hit out at the Congress government over the gruesome killing of a man in the Chamba district and alleged that its wrong policies have led to a collapse of law and order in the state.

    It has been 13 days since the murder but no government representative has visited the family of the victim, Leader of Opposition Jai Ram Thakur said.

    Reiterating the party’s demand for a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe in the case, Thakur said if such heinous crimes continue, the BJP would not sit quietly.

    The people voted for Congress to bring change and not for appeasement of a particular community and “we are with the family of the victim in this war for justice”, the BJP leader said in a statement.

    “We were stopped from meeting the family of the victim and by making allegations against those demanding justice for the victim, the government is siding with the accused,” he alleged.

    Tension prevailed in the Salooni town of Chamba last Thursday when a mob burned down the house of a man, identified as Musafir Hussain, who has been accused of killing 28-year-old Manohar over an affair with his niece and chopping his body into pieces.

    Thakur added that due to the wrong policies of the Congress government, law and order has collapsed and police officers are making political statements.

    The Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led government is wreaking vengeance and has failed to fulfil the guarantees given by the Congress during the assembly polls, he said.

    Thakur claimed that the BJP would win all four Lok Sabha seats in Himachal Pradesh in 2024 and Narendra Modi would be the prime minister for a third time.

    State BJP chief Dr. Rajiv Bindal also accused the Congress government of not fulfilling the party’s poll promises.

    The people will support the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls, he said, addressing a meeting at Chopal in Shimla district to mark the completion of nine years of the Modi government.

  • Corruption allegation ploy to close Mandi University : Jai Ram Thakur

    Corruption allegation ploy to close Mandi University : Jai Ram Thakur

    Leader of the Opposition Jai Ram Thakur today said that the corruption charges levelled against the authorities of Sardar Patel University here in the recruitment of assistant professors and other staff are a ploy of the Congress government to shut it down.

    Thakur said, “The Joint Commissioner of the Education Department has alleged gross violation of rules in the university without conducting an inquiry. How did he come to the conclusion that gross violation of rules had taken place in the university? It is a tactic to defame the university and shut it down.”

    Thakur, while addressing mediapersons here, said, the government had recently removed the Vice-Chancellor of the university. “The future of over 35,000 students belonging to five districts of the state is on stake. Their exams are scheduled to be held from April 17,” he added.

    Thakur said, “We will make efforts to protect the future of these students and the university, which the government wants to close down.”

    He said, “On the pretext of getting a survey done by another agency, the government is mulling to shift the site of the proposed airport in Mandi to some other district. The previous BJP government had spent Rs 10 crore to complete different formalities for the construction of an airport in the Balh valley of Mandi. It will be unfortunate if the government shifts the airport project to some other place.”

    He said that the performance of the government was not up to the mark. “Before the Assembly elections, the Congress had promised to provide Rs 1,500 per month to all women between the age of 18 and 60 years. However, after coming to power, it is providing Rs 1,500 per month to only those women “who were already receiving a pension of Rs 1,000 during our rule”.