Senior BJP leader and former Chief Minister, Prem Kumar Dumal, has alleged that the ruling Congress in Himachal Pradesh has gone back from its promise made before the last assembly elections to give unemployment allowance at the rate of Rs 1000 per month to the jobless youth on coming to power.
Dhumal, also the leader of Opposition, said Virbhadra Singh had expressed inability to fulfill it due to financial constraints. He said the Chief Minister had indulged from the very first day in extravagance and burdened the state exchequer with unproductive expenditure to rehabilitate his defeated and rejected personal loyalists in the party at the cost of the state exchequer and the unemployed youths. The BJP leader predicted that after the UP elections it was a foregone conclusion that Congress party would to totally decimated in Himachal Pradesh in the forthcoming elections which were now at the door-step of the hill State. Many dissidents and detractors of the Chief Minister were reeling under panic and feel that they were sailing in the sinking ship.
He said in one of his recent speeches Virbhadra Singh had acknowledge the defeat of the BJP in which he said even if BJP won in Himachal Pradesh, Dhumal would not be the chief minister. He drew cold comfort from it. Dhumal said the chief minister holds “bullish enmity” with him for reasons.
The former Chief Minister bemoaned that Virbhadra Singh has wasted his entire tenure in inaugurations of the works and projects executed and accomplished in the tenure of the BJP Government which were complemented and commended by the impartial national and international agencies. Congress government had been doing exercises in futility and burdening the state by opening unwanted offices for the interest of the party and not the state which had yet to achieve economic viability.