Sukhu assures help to Pong Dam oustees

Shimla: Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Saturday said he understood the problem of the people displaced due to Pong Dam and his govt did not force anyone to vacate their house and instead provided them three times the amount to build their houses.
He said if the law had to be changed for the residents of Dehra and the displaced people of Pong Dam, it would be changed.Due to the election code of conduct, no announcement of any kind can be made right now, but all possible help will be provided to the displaced, Sukhu said while addressing a conference of Youth Congress workers in support of his wife and Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur in Dehra.
Sukhu said former independent MLA from Dehra Hoshyar Singh had “sold” his assembly membership for political gains and to weaken democracy.
Hoshyar Singh neither belonged to the Congress nor the BJP, what made him resign from his membership and join the BJP, the people of Dehra should ask him, said Sukhu.
If the Congress govt was not doing his (Hoshyar Singh) work then he should have sat in the opposition with the BJP, what was the need to impose the byelections, he asked. The BJP and Hoshyar Singh have played with the sentiments of the people and imposed the byelection on them, the CM added.
Sukhu said Hoshyar Singh sat on dharna to get his resignation accepted by the speaker. The people should ask him whether he ever staged a dharna for the people of Dehra or for the Central University, he added.
“He staged a sit-in outside the assembly only for his own selfish reasons,” claimed Sukhu.
“I request the hardworking and honest workers of the BJP to vote for the Congress candidate, since this election is between the Congress and the sold-out MLA. Hoshyar Singh stopped the development of Dehra,” the CM added.