Himachal Pradesh Forest Minister Thakur Singh Bharmouri and Excise Minister Prakash Chaudhary have strongly denounced the allegations levelled by the Dhumals and other BJP leaders against Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and his family members.
They said that Dhumals were indulging in malicious propaganda and mudslinging to divert and distract public attention from their own wrong doings, which were under probe. They had made HPCA a captive organisation by inducting voting members from neighbouring States. Dhumal Government had leased out prime land to the HPCA. Numerous irregularities were committed by the HPCA, which have been exposed. They said that Dhumal family stood marginalised in the BJP after their misdeeds were coming to the fore.
The popularity of Virbhadra Singh and stream of developmental works launched by the Congress in the State under his stewardship have completely baffled them. After loss of power in the State, they are seeing imminent defeat in the forthcoming parliamentary election, which has made them nervous and shaky, they added. They said Vikramaditya Singh was an upcoming youth leader and he was being deliberately targeted with an ulterior motive of causing harm to his image in the ongoing youth elections.