All India Congress Committee AICC Secretary and AICC Observer for Mandi Sanjay Dutt slammed BJP's Mandi Lok Sabha seat candidate Kangana Ranaut for "not helping" people of Himachal Pradesh while the state faced biggest ever natural calamity last year and now projecting herself as "daughter"
Vice President of the Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee Naresh Chauhan on Monday said that there has been resentment among the BJP leaders over ticket being given to actor-turned politician Kangana Ranaut from Mandi seat for the Lok Sabha polls.
Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee General Secretary Rajneesh Kimta alleged on Monday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Mandi parliamentary constituency, Kangana Ranaut, and her party are trying to politicize the issue of the attack on a college student in Palampur.
A college girl was stabbed with a sharp-edged weapon by a youth at a local bus stand in Palampur under Kangra district on Saturday. The youth tried to kill the girl but a few alert passengers and passers-by overpowered the attacker and handed him over to the police.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that names of the candidates for the remaining parliamentary constituencies and assembly by-elections would be announced soon and if there is one party that has played a vital role in strengthening the democracy and the security
As many as 104 roads and three national highways were blocked in Himachal Pradesh due to snowfall and rain on Saturday, an official statement released by the state emergency operation centre read.
The party leadership has planned the strategies and campaigns differently for both Shimla and Mandi parliamentary constituencies. However, the party has yet to decide candidates for the Kangra and Hamirpur parliamentary constituencies.
While speaking at a public meeting in the Nurpur city of Himachal Pradesh on Friday, Bhardwaj said, "Congress has an old relationship with corruption, and Congress is the mother of corruption. The BJP's PM Modi has put a lock on Congress' looting system."
The senior leaders including Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, State Party President Pratibha Singh, party's candidate from Mandi Vikramaditya Singh and other senior leaders gathered at the party state headquarters in Shimla.