Days after the registration of an FIR and CBI raids on various premises of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in the disproportionate assets case, the State Communist Party of India (Marxist) has staged a workers’ protest in the Capital town and demanded his resignation.
The party leaders alleged that Mr. Singh is facing grievous charges of corruption and is still sticking to his chair which is utterly unfortunate. Party leader Vijendra Mehra said that Chief Minister’s involvement in corruption cases has also affected the image of a peaceful State and its honest residents.
“His continuous attempts in saving his own chair after facing repeated corruption charges has badly affected the developmental works and general good of the people here, he said.
Inevitable
The CPI (M) maintained that such corruption is inevitable in the ‘politics-business-bureaucracy’ nexus in the capitalistic economic order. Both the Congress and BJP have been involved in huge corruption so far in the State and are always supportive to each other.
Interestingly the senior party leaders of CPI-M have hardly commented on the Chief Minister’s involvement in corruption or the recent CBI raids on his properties. Former party secretary Rakesh Singha in his first reaction had advised Mr. Singh not to resign till the charges against him are proved.
The State CPI (M) here has always been blamed for playing a second fiddle to Virbhadra led Congress by other political parties and masses in general.
Despite the total opposition of CPI (M) led Shimla Municipal Corporation and all left trade unions by the Congress government, the party hardly dares to talk against the Chief Minister and Congress policies in the hill State, say the political analysts.
Smart city list
The Capital town was taken out of the list of smart cities project because of a political plot and an unknown municipality of Dharamsala was preferred instead, said the Shimla Mayor Sanjay Chauhan and Deputy Mayor Tikender Panwar of CPI (M).
On the other hand the BJP has blamed the Mayoral office for hobnobbing with the Chief Minister on the day to day basis and cheating the general public. Shimla MLA, Suresh Bhardwaj has blamed the left leaders for their inefficiency and subsequent returning of the unused central grant, since it all went unspent.
