Expressing confidence of getting a majority in Himachal Pradesh, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said that BJP was going to register a comfortable win in Himachal Pradesh.
He said that the BJP which was ruling in six Sates before 2014 has been running Governments in 18 States on its own or in alliance at present.
Himachal Pradesh had missed the wagon of development, which the country had witnessed under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership in the last three and a half year, but with BJP Government in the State, Himachal Pradesh will witness accelerated development under an honest and transparent Government, said the Union Minister while addressing mediapersons here.
Goyal said that people throughout the country had shown confidence on the honest, transparent and decisive leadership of Prime Minister Modi and Himachal Pradesh would witness speedy development under the leadership of Modi and Prem Kumar Dhumal, who is the Chief Ministerial candidate in Himachal.
Presenting the railway expansion plan in Himachal, he said that detailed project report of Una-Hamirpur rail link was under consideration of Railway Board.
Under the UPA regime, Rs 108 crore was spent on railway expansion in Himachal Pradesh every year, while the yearly expenditure in 2017-18 was planned to be Rs 512 crore under BJP Government, he claimed.
Defending the Government on inflation issue, Goyal said that the BJP had brought down double digit rate of inflation to as low as 3 to 4 per cent.
Goyal further said that State had a vast scope in tourism, which had not been tapped.
Accompanying Goyal, Cabinet Minister of Uttarakhand, Satpal Maharaj said that the Government has big plans for religious tourism. He said that a Shiv circuit connecting all Shiv Temples, Vaishnav circuit connecting all Vishnu Temples and other connecting all Devi temples will be developed. And the hill State will get big benefit in religious tourism through these circuits, said he.
He added that the next year would be celebrated as year of adventurous tourism and mountaineers from around the world will come to the hill States.