Governance has collapsed: Dhumal

Our Correspondent

Hamirpur, November 28

Former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said governance in the state had virtually collapsed and bureaucracy as well as technocracy had become inoperative.

He said development works in the state come to a standstill. The BJP would hold a historic agitation on December 2 and demand resignation of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on the issue of corruption.

Dhumal said major issues that would surface in the winter session at Dharamsala would be corruption, law and order situation in the state and development. The state police were not listening to poor people and social security in the state was at stake, he said.

Dhumal said the Congress had failed to fulfil its commitments made in the run-up to the Assembly elections. The promise of unemployment allowance to the youth was not fulfilled. He said the uniforms that were distributed among school students by the BJP government were not given by the Congress government.

The former Chief Minister said orchardists were not given hail protection nets on subsidy; construction of the Theog-Hatkoti road was delayed; and the road was in a bad condition. He said despite the High Court intervention, the government had failed to meet the road completion deadline.

Speaking on the raids conducted by the Enforcement Department (ED) relating to cases of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, he said the ED should have acted earlier. Speaking at a meeting with the CM, he said it was a formal procedural meeting.