Strap: Remains evasive on his future course as well as of the rebel Congress leaders
TNR Desk
Amid the political crisis in Himachal Pradesh, PWD Minister Vikramaditya Singh on Tuesday (March 5, 2024) night again met the six disqualified Congress rebel MLAs who have been putting up at a hotel in Chandigarh under tight security arrangements being provided by the CRPF and the Haryana Police.
Vikramaditya, who is learnt to have aired his grievances against Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu during a meeting with senior party leaders Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and KC Venugopal, left for Hamirpur after meeting the disqualified MLAs. The six rebels are Rajinder Singh Rana (Sujanpur), Sudhir Sharma (Dharamshala), Chaitanya Sharma (Gagret), Ravi Thakur (Lahaul-Spiti), Inder Dutt Lakhanpal (Barsar) and Davinder Bhutto (Kutlehar).
A video was released from Chandigarh in which Vikramaditya was seen alongside Bhutto and Rana’s son Abhishek Rana. After meeting the rebels when the media asked him some questions, Vikramaditya merely laughed and refused to respond saying that the matter was in the court. He appeared evasive when asked whether he was with the BJP or the Congress, how he would proceed with the matter and who was Holly Lodge behind the entire controversy.
Sources said that during his meeting with Priyanka, Vikramaditya is learnt to have been told that there would be no change in guard in Himachal till the Lok Sabha elections. Priyanka is learnt to have asked the PWD Minister why he resigned from the ministry and then retracted after eight hours. She is learnt to have assured him of looking in his grievances provided he set things right in the Himachal Congress, as these were before the Rajya Sabha election.
To resolve the political crisis, the Congress high command had sent to Shimla former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar. It was decided that a coordination committee comprising Chief Minister Sukhu, Congress state president Pratibha Singh, Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri and three other members would be formed for better coordination between the party and the government.
