lashing out at the BJP, Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday said that the propaganda being aired by the BJP is nothing more than a bundle of lies.
“Though a lot is being spent on my court cases as falsely framed by the BJP, I am a man who will not be belittled by their villainous moves. It is true that I am ‘tired’ but will fight to the nefarious designs of the BJP and oppose their every move till the end,” said the Chief Minister while addressing a public meeting at Amb in district Una.
He said that now, when elections are around the corner, the BJP is countering the development by involving in character assassination. Their modus operandi is to
attack the leader of the Congress party whom they fear the most, but they are forgetting that Congress is a party of soldiers and there is no dearth of good leaders in the party, he said.
The BJP is targeting me and I want to send a message to the Prime Minister and the State BJP leaders that Virbhadra Singh is not afraid of their modus operandi, no matter they may frame several false cases against me, said the Chief Minister.
Referring to the Rs 922 crore Swan River Channelisation, he said that the work on channelization of Swan and its 73 tributaries is still in progress, but there had been inordinate delay due to shortage of funds.
The funds were held up by the Centre despite several requests. In the first year, the cost of the project was Rs 330 crore, out which the State was to contribute Rs 99 crore while the remaining was to be contributed by the Union Ministry for Water Resources. A sum of Rs 189.351 crore had been released by the
Central Government since the commissioning of the project and now, the Centre had released a little amount more, he said.
The Chief Minister also announced upgradation of civil hospital Amb to 50 bedded hospital.
Speaking on the occasion, MlA Chintpurni and chairman State Finance Commission Kuldeep Kumar said that the purpose of this rally was to express the gratitude to the Chief Minister for the massive development undertaken in his Assembly.
He said more than 60 per cent of drinking water problems had been solved during the last almost five years.