The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded to impose President rule in Himachal Pradesh to ensure free and fair elections and described the Virbhadra Singh-led Congress Government as ‘dictatorial and fascist’ government.

Senior BJP leader Satpal Jain has welcomed the Election Commission’s decision to conduct early elections in the State. Satpal Jain is also in charge of the BJP’s party affairs in Himachal Pradesh,

Jain told the media persons during a press conference that the BJP was methodically prepared for the coming assembly polls. He also told the senior bureaucrats and other government servants not to yield in any kind of pressure. He appealed the government functionaries to help the EC to conduct just and fair elections in state.

He also said that the Congress government would have to answer the people of the state on the issues of corruption, price rise, unemployment and failure of state machinery on all fronts. He also rejected the reports regarding any kind of internal division within the party between the Shanta Kumar and Dhumal supporters in the Himachal unit of BJP.

On the question of chief ministerial candidate he said that the party workers would reach an agreeable understanding for the top job in government if the people would give the party mandate to be in power.

Jain has made it clear that the party would not form any pre-poll alliance and would contest all 68 State Assembly seats. He said that the newly formed Himachal unit of the Bahujan Samaj Party would damage the mass base of Congress in state because many Congress workers are joining the BSP.

On the other hand, CM Virbhadra Singh, who is in the US, has also welcomed the EC’s decision to conduct early polls in the state. He claimed, in a written statement, that Congress would regain the power because the people would vote for developmental work his government has done in the state.

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