Farmers Movement Archive

Like HP bypolls, BJP will loses MC polls: Cong

Chandigarh: Although BJP has brought Himachal Pradesh chief minister and Union minister hailing from the state for campaigning in the municipal corporation (MC) elections, the party will face a humiliating defeat like it did in the Himachal bypolls,” said Kuldeep Singh Rathore, president, Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC), who was in the city for the campaigning of Congress candidates. Rajinder Rana, vice-president of HPCC and Congress coordinator for MC polls said, “People of Himachal Pradesh have shown the way to the ruling BJP in Himachal Pradesh by giving Congress one Lok Sabha and three assembly seats in the bypolls held recently. The BJP is going to meet the same fate in Chandigarh. People are not going to be lured by false promises of BJP.” Rathore said the Narendra Modi government was forced to reduce excise duty on petrol and diesel after their resounding defeat in the by-elections. The fear of electoral defeat had forced the government to take back the farm laws.” Rathore, who has lived in Chandigarh for many years, lamented the miserable civic conditions in the city due to “rampant corruption that prevailed in the corporation during last six years”. Rana, while addressing public meeting in different MC wards, said, “It is a habit of BJP leaders to make promises in the run-up to elections and turn their back on them once they are over. These lucrative promises will not work as people have made up their mind to oust BJP from Chandigarh MC,” he said.

The Times of India

2021-12-21

Chandigarh