December 24, 2024

Vote for change in Himachal: Priyanka

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The Himachal Herald, Una ( Haroli)

AICC General secretary Priyanka Gandhi, addressing a political rally at Kangar in Haroli on Monday, urged people to continue the tradition of changing governments after every five years.

The BJP had been carrying out a campaign that the tradition of changing governments should change. However, the change is always good for people if there was non-performing government, she said.

Himachal had many traditions, including sending youth to the Army. The Union government had committed injustice with the youth by implementing the Agnipath scheme. Soldiers joining the Army would now have neither rank, nor pension. The BJP government had tried to break the tradition of the youth joining the Army, Priyanka said.


She said the BJP was urging the people to break the tradition of changing governments in the state. However, it should first tell people what its state government had done in the past five years. “All projects that had been implemented were initiated during the stint of the previous Congress government led by former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh. The BJP government should tell people which new institution, college or hospital had come up in five years,” she added.

Priyanka alleged that whatever, little development had happened might have happened only in the constituency of Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur. However, nothing had been done in your district, he said, addressing people in Una district.

She targeted the government for its failure to provide jobs to the youth. She said there were 63,000 vacancies in various departments but the government did not make efforts to fill these. If the Congress is voted to power, it would fill all vacancies and provide about 1 lakh jobs, she added. She said the Congress was committed to providing the old age pension to government employees and the decision would be taken in the first Cabinet meeting.