In his first interaction since the formation of the Dhumal regime he said the state had virtually been given on a platter to the BJP. “I was alone campaigning in Himachal while Congress leaders from the Centre who were to visit the state went to Gujarat, where they failed to deliver,” he said.
He said the top brass of the BJP right from Advani to Sushma Swaraj to Rajnath Singh came to Himachal in waves, creating a wave which gave momentum to the BJP campaign. He said in the absence of central leaders, the campaigning was left to him alone.
It is probably for the first time he admitted that the BSP had played a spoilsport for the Congress even though it managed to win only one assembly seat. “Though there has been a shift of only 2 per cent votes it made all the difference and in many places the party candidates lost with slender margins,” he said. He admitted that the BSP had damaged the Congress.
He said another reason which led to the Congress defeat in the state was the wrong distribution of assembly tickets. “We lost some of the seats when the tickets were given as the candidates there failed to save even their security deposit,” he said.
Virbhadra Singh, who has been maintaining a low profile, said that he would attend the March 30 party rally being organised in Kangra but being a simple MLA it was not mandatory for him to attend every meeting being organised at the district headquarters. He said that the Congress would extend support to the BJP on pro-people programmes but it would not hesitate to oppose and agitate against decisions that were not in the interest of the state and its people.
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