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Shimla, May 24 (HS). Chief Minister Thakur Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu on Friday campaigned for Congress party candidate Anuradha Rana in Udaipur of Lahaul-Spiti district and party candidate Vikramaditya Singh from Mandi Lok Sabha constituency and appealed to the voters to make the Congress party victorious with a huge margin.
Addressing an election rally, the Chief Minister said that former MLA Ravi Thakur has imposed the burden of by-election on the people of Lahaul-Spiti because he had betrayed the Congress party and sold his integrity in the political market of BJP.
He said that when some fellow Congress MLAs went to ask him the reason for cross voting in the Rajya Sabha elections, Ravi Thakur instigated those Congress MLAs to join the BJP and said that the BJP is giving Rs. 15-15 crores, take it.
Thakur Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu said that every demand of former MLA Ravi Thakur was fulfilled by the Congress government. The first Himachal Day after independence was celebrated in Spiti Valley after he became the Chief Minister and the scheme of giving Rs 1500 per month to the women of Spiti was also started from here. From May 1, 2023, all the women of Spiti Valley started getting a pension of Rs 1500 and from February 1, 2024, women of the entire district were brought under the purview of this scheme.
The Chief Minister said that the Congress Party has given ticket to Anuradha Rana as an honest candidate from Lahaul Spiti and the voters of the area should make her successful. He said that the voters should not waste their votes by voting for an independent candidate because Anuradha's victory is certain from Lahaul-Spiti.
He said that for the first time in the history of the country, independent candidates are staging dharnas and demonstrations to get their resignations accepted. He said that the power of democracy is people's power, not money power. This election is not to save the government but to give a reply to the politics of lies and bribery. He said that there is no threat to the present Congress government and the present Congress government will complete its remaining term of three and a half years.