Vikramaditya again targets Kangana over ‘beef consumption’, says BJP insulting Himachal deities by fielding such candidate
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TNR Desk
Himachal Pradesh PWD Minister Vikramaditya Singh, who is the Congress candidate for the Mandi parliamentary election, has alleged that the BJP had insulted the deities in the state by choosing a candidate who had “admitted to consuming beef”.
Speaking to the media in Shimla ahead of a meeting called by the Congress to form strategy for the elections in Mandi, Vikramaditya tried to corner his BJP rival Kangana Ranaut and former Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur saying both must come clean on the issue.
Without naming Kangana, the young Congress MLA said his Mandi rival as well as Jai Ram had both been “insulting Sanatan Dharma”. He said he had even sought to know the stand of the Vishva Hindu Parishad and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on the beef consumption issue.
The Congress in Himachal, meanwhile, has initiated efforts to secure victory in the Lok Sabha elections. The party has called its session at Rajiv Bhawan, the state Congress headquarters, in Shimla on Friday (April 19, 2024) to strategise for the Mandi parliamentary seat, followed by a session on Saturday to plan for the Shimla parliamentary constituency.
Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and Congress state president Pratibha Singh will be present at the meetings. The two-day meetings will involve brainstorming sessions with ministers, Chief Parliamentary Secretaries, MLAs, former MLAs, past candidates and party office-bearers.
Education Minister Rohit Thakur, who is in charge of the Shimla parliamentary seat, said that the Saturday meeting at 10 am would include ministers, MLAs from the Shimla parliamentary constituency, Congress candidates for the 2022 Assembly elections, former MLAs and heads of prominent organisations and departments, along with officials from the state Congress Committee representing the Shimla seat
