BJP shaken by public response to Sukkhu as HPCC chief: Cong

Himachal Pradesh Congress has taken a strong exception to "absurd remarks" of BJP leaders that the new Himachal Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) president Sukhvinder Singh Sukkhu was a "defeated leader" and said that the public response to Sukkhu during his tours of various districts has made BJP jittery.
"Their outbursts are expression of their frustration and jealousy", HPCC spokesman Naresh Chauhan said.
Former BJP Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal had himself lost parliamentary election from Hamirpur twice and in 1996 he lost to a greenhorn with no experience of electoral politics, Chauhan said adding that defeats or victory in assembly of Lok Sabha polls do not matter for leaders of stature.

He alleged that Anurag Thakur won elections only after his father was occupying the office of chief minister but Sukkhu has risen from grass-root and he is in politics due to his hardwork and merit.
"The BJP government made tall claim of making Himachal as "Education Hub" but in fact it promoted land mafia and education mafia and committed number of irregularities when it was in power.
We vowed to expose their misdeeds in our election manifesto and probing various acts of omission and commission, adding to discomfiture of the BJP', he said.