Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Sunday said he won’t bow down to the tactics of Opposition parties who were trying hard to destabilise the popularly elected Congress Government in the State.
None of the BJP leaders would succeed in their ulterior motives, said the Chief Minister while presiding over the 11th Annual cultural evening cum prize distribution function ‘Ek Shaam Himachal Ke Naam’ of Himachal Pradesh Students Union (HPSU) in Punjab University auditorium at Chandigarh.
He said that his political opponents in Himachal, in collusion with the few central leaders of the like coterie, were afraid of his popularity and dared them to fight the battle right from the front rather than backstabbing.
Virbhadra Singh said that the truth would prevail in the end, no matter how much conspiracy was hatched against him.
On the occasion, the Chief Minister announced a sum of Rs 3.50 lakh from his discretionary fund to HPSU and assured that the government will take up the matter for construction of working hostel only if some official communication was received from the Punjab University authorities.
He said that Himachal Pradesh was a treasure house of vivid and vast culture endowed with rich legacy of traditions and belief in our deities and it was a matter of delight that our younger generation was doing well to promote the cultural heritage of the state.
He exhorted the students to take up their studies seriously and said that the HPSU family should make efforts to unite all other students unions of different states so as to bring them on a single platform of all the students for spreading fraternity and devote themselves in the welfare activities of all as a whole.
The Chief Minister said that the state had progressed in all spheres and was one of the most developed hill states in the country. Today there were as many as 94 colleges in the state catering to quality educational needs of the youth of the State, particularly the girls, said he.
He also listed the development and the progress achieved by the state in health, road and social welfare sector.
He also released a calendar of HPSU and distributed prizes to those who had excelled themselves in academics and other fields as well.