Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls | BJP cannot befool people: Mallikarjun Kharge
The Hindu
Polling in Himachal Pradesh will be held on November 12 and the counting of votes will be taken up on December 8
Addressing his first public meeting in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on November 9 trained his gun on the BJP and said it may have been able to befool people across the country with its " jumlas" but cannot do so in the hill State.
"People here are educated, understand everything and take a considered decision [in voting].... The BJP may have been able to befool people all over the country with its jumlas [rhetoric] of ₹15 lakh in bank accounts and jobs, but it cannot do so here," Mr. Kharge said.
Mr. Kharge, who was elected Congress president recently, arrived in Himachal Pradesh Tuesday evening and addressed his first public meeting in Banuti in support of party candidate from the Shimla Rural Assembly constituency Vikramaditya Singh.
The Congress is seeking to wrest power from the BJP in the hill State, where the Congress and the BJP have governed alternately for the past many decades.
Polling in Himachal Pradesh will be held on November 12 and the counting of votes will be taken up on December 8.
Mr. Kharge said the Congress would fulfil all its promises made in the manifesto and the restoration of the old pension scheme would be the first decision of its government, if elected.
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