PM Narendra Modi to visit Himachal on Oct 18

Shimla:Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Himachal Pradesh on October 18 and address two rallies at Nahan and Mandi.

The state BJP executive which concluded its three-day meeting at Una today, constituted a committee to make preparations for the rallies to be held in Shimla and Mandi Parliamentary constituencies.

The meeting asked the charge-sheet committee to finalise the charge-sheet against Congress government positively by December 15 so that it could be submitted to Governor on December 24, the day chief minister Virbhadra Singh will complete four years in power.

The Charge-sheet committee would visit all the districts to get feedback and collect documents pertaining to acts of omission and commission of the government, state BJP chief Satpal Singh Satti said.

The state executive also constituted a ten member committee including BJP national general secretary Srikant Sharma, former chief minister P K Dhumal, state party chief Satpal Singh Satti, and other senior leaders to chalk out the detailed programme for achieving mission 50 plus (out of 68 seats) in assembly polls and agitation programmes to be carried out by the party in run up to assembly polls due in November 2017.

The meeting adopted a resolution expressing gratitude to Prime Minister and Union government for liberal fiance help to Himachal and said the state government had miserably failed to utilise the funds due to “rampant corruption and mafias ruling the roost”.

The meeting also lauded the Prime minister for showing courage to go in for surgical strikes on terrorist launch pads across the border and hit out at those questioning the army action.

PTI