Campaigning for the BJP, Union Home Minister Raj Nath Singh on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh alleging that he dragged Himachal Pradesh economy to the brink of bankruptcy due to widespread corruption, financial improprieties and large scale extravagance on unproductive expenses.
Addressing two Parivartan Rallies in Balh and Nachan Assembly segments of Mandi district, the Home Minister lamented that all development works in the hill state had cone to a grinding halt after Congress came to power.
Within two years, the people of the hill State were disillusioned with the Congress misrule, unbridled bureaucracy and corruption, Rajnath Singh said adding that some trusted but retired officers ruled the state in an arbitrary and autocratic manner. “Consequently Congress lost all the four Parliamentary seats to BJP,” he added.
He said with the emergence of Prime Minister Narender Modi, an era of honesty had ushered in the country. “No minister or MlA of BJP has been charged with any allegation of corruption while during the Congress rule the corruption and scams had become an order of the day,” he said.
The Home Minister said stern action against the corrupt had made Modi the hero of the poor. “Only those holding black money are feeling like a fish out of water,” he said.
He declared the dream of the Modi Government to provide remunerative price of the produce of the farmers and shelter to every person would be positively realized by by the year 2022.