SHIMLA, 13.12.24-In a joint statement issued here today, Health Minister Dr. (Col) Dhani Ram Shandil and Education Minister Rohit Thakur said that the State BJP seems to be in shock seeing the massive turnout of around 50,000 people who assembled in Bilaspur during the two years celebrations of the present congress Government.

The rally was a testament to the fact that the people of the State have immense faith and support in the Government led by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and the BJP leaders were s confounded that they were issuing baseless statements thereafter. The massive gathering has signalled that they were satisfied with the policies of the Sukhu-led Congress government in the State and now the state BJP leaders were effortlessly trying to gain publicity by issuing unfounded statements.

They said that the BJP was not going to gain anything from it, neither will they benefit from the lies they were spreading and doing malicious propaganda.

The duo slammed leader of opposition Jai Ram Thakur for his baseless statement of spending Rs. 25 crore in the Bilaspur rally thereby misusing public money. Rather they should first give account of the expenditure they incurred during the rallies hey organised during their tenure including crores they spent on hospitality of their central leaders visiting Himachal.

Dr. Shandil and Education Minister said that the fact was that there was internal conflict between the State BJP leaders as every BJP leader represent him as the only tall leader and to polish their politics they were issuing statements in media to make show their identity and presence felt as many were quite upset being ignored by the BJP party cadre.

In a memorandum, they have submitted to the Governor against the present sitting government, they have levelled allegations of corruption, unnecessary spending and financial mismanagement against the government which was irrelevant and baseless. Actually, all these allegations were made on the previous BJP government by the people of the State who ousted them out of power and confirmed faith in congress, the Ministers remarked.

They said that lies can't travel far and long as the people of the State know well that the government led by Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has controlled financial mismanagement and corruption vis-à-vis has taken initiatives to mobilize the existing resources of the State for revenue generation as a result of which the government earned revenue of Rs. 2600 crore within a year, the remarked.

It was during the BJP regime that the future of the youth was at stake, the Service Selection Board at Hamirpur had become the hub of corruption selling jobs and the present government immediately disbanded the Selection board and constituted Rajya Chayan Ayog doing justice with the youth and also declared the pending results of as many as 13 post codes.

The Ministers said that out of the 10 guarantees as promised to the people of the State the Government has fulfilled five of them and has laid a strong foundation of development despite facing natural disaster and political upheaval as created by the BJP to topple the democratically government. It has been promised by the Chief Minister that Himachal would be self-reliant by 2027 and the most prosperous State by 2031 and sincere efforts were being made in this direction, they said.

It was sad enough that the BJP leaders of the State rather than co-operating were creating hurdles in the development initiatives. The people had firm hope that the BJP leaders of Himachal will strongly place the state issues but rather they had been busy manipulating, trying to oust the majority government. The people will never forgive them for their misdeeds and will certainly show them dust in near future as well, the duo remarked.