Himachal government cheating public: BJP

The BJP in Himachal Pradesh has accused the Virbhadra Singh-led state government of cheating the people by providing multifold benefits to a few private players.
State BJP spokespersons Himanshu Mishra and Rakesh Sharma said one MRC group of Punjab has been allotted a piece of land of bus stand at Hindu Shrine Chintpurni for a 33-year lease term at Rs 56 lakh per year.
"Earlier, the parking fee was collected by the state government and the income per year was Rs 125 lakh. This clearly shows that the government itself has reduced the income by Rs 69 lakh per year," Mishra told reporters.

The parking fee of Rs 30 for cars and Rs 100 for buses has been raised by the group to Rs 100 and Rs 250 for cars and buses respectively, making multifold loss to the government, Sharma said.
"This 26 Kanal of land was donated to the Himachal Pradesh government by three devotees to built a bus stand with an agreement that it must not be used for any other purpose. The MRC group, however, is going to build a shopping complex there besides collecting increased parking fee," Mishra said.
The two BJP leaders said the ruling Congress party is cheating the public and would be shown the back door in this year's assembly elections.