Hitting out at the UPA government, Former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today said the "brewing tension" between bureaucracy and the political bosses has created an atmosphere of uncertainty.
"It is for the first time that a senior retired IAS officer had directly implicated the Prime Minister in the Coalgate scam," Dhumal said in an apparent reference to the allegations made by former Coal Secretary P C Parakh against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Coalgate scam.
Parakh, who has been named in the FIR filed by CBI for alleged irregularities in coal block allocation to Aditya Birla firm Hindalco, had said Singh knew of the coal blocks being allocated to companies and he too should be named as a "conspirator" and made an "accused".
Speaking to media persons after inaugurating the BJP Abhyas Varg for Palampur, Dhumal said the common man was reeling under pressure of rising prices, unemployment, corruption along with internal and external security threats under the UPA government at the Centre.
"UPA government has failed on all fronts. Development has come to a halt and the country's image has got a beating internationally due to scams and inertia of the central government" he said.
Lauding BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as people's choice, Dhumal said not only the people of the country but even foreign nations were now convinced that the NDA would form the next government, headed by Modi.
The mass appeal of Modi can be gauged from the fact that foreign diplomats attended his public meetings and people purchased entry tickets to listen to him, he said.
Taking a dig at the state government headed by Virbhadra Singh, the Leader of Opposition said: "While it took the UPA government nine years to take the country down the drain, Virbhadra Singh government had done it in mere nine months."
He alleged that despite much hype about the National Food Security Programme, the state government had failed to provide all items to the people through fair price shops.
Reacting to the war of words between Arun Dhumal and HP's Congress leadership, Dhumal said his son was only reacting to false accusation made against him.
