With Himachal Pradesh going for elections this year, the State unit of the BJP has trained its guns at the ruling party on the issue of mafia raaj. The party will hold not less than 100 public meetings as part of its ‘Mafia Raaj Hatao, Himachal Pradesh Bachao’ campaign to be launched from Bilaspur on February 21.
Giving details about the campaign, the State BJP president Satpal Singh Satti said that the public meetings would focus on exposing rampant corruption, maladministration and the rising mafia raaj.
He said the party would expose the protection being given to anti-social elements during the rule of Virbhadra Singh. The first public meeting would be held at Bilaspur, as this district was the worst affected by the mafia, whether it was mining mafia or drug mafia. The people in the district has been facing trouble due to the high influence of mafia in every sphere.
Bilaspur meeting would be followed by public rallies at Kullu on February 22, Sarkaghat in Mandi district on February 23, Gagret on February 26 and Sujanpur on February 27 under the campaign. Besides these, public rallies would also be held at Paonta Sahib and Solan on March 4 and 5 respectively.
State BJP vice president and MlA Randhir Sharma will take care of the entire campaign, while former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, State party president Satpal Singh Sati, all MlAs and other senior leaders of the party will address the public meetings during the campaign.
Speaking about the campaign, Randhir Singh said that the party has also decided to come out with separate chargesheet of each Assembly segments which would be submitted to the Governor to expose the rampant corruption under the Congress rule.
Charging the State government of allowing rule of mafia in the State, Sharma said that forest, mine, drugs, land, liqour and transfer mafia had flourished in the State in the last four years. It appeared that there was no governance in the State to curb the mafia raaj, said Sharma.
Sharma said that dossier of chargesheets addressed to the Governor would be submitted to the respective Deputy Commissioners and Sub-Divisional Magistrates in every Assembly segment on March 25. He said that the dates and venues of other public meetings would be declared later.