Mandi: As all four seats of Himachal Pradesh will undergo polling on June 1, Congress Candidate from Mandi parliamentary seat, Vikramaditya Singh filed nomination papers today. During this time, Chief Minister of the state Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, other party leaders including state in-charge Rajeev Shukla, State Congress President and mother of Vikramaditya, Pratibha Singh and others were also present.
Interacting with media Vikramaditya Singh took dig on the Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut and said that her presence will not make any difference. He said, “I am confident that the ‘sankalp’ we take here will be just of development – only development oriented. We have worked and stood with people in difficult times, especially during calamity…There are other candidates too, there is glamour and Bollywood but it will not make any difference. ”
Rajeev Shukla affirming a huge margin victory said that Vikramaditya Singh would win by a margin of more than two lakhs. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu said that the people of the state have known the real face of BJP and they will vote on the issues concerning people.
He further added that there was an attempt to topple the government, now BJP will get its answer. He said that people will vote on the tenure of 15 months, in which work was done on issues related to the general public.
“Today, I have filed nominations from Mandi Lok Sabha seat in the presence of CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and party MP Rajiv Shukla. This fight is not against anyone, this fight is just for the development of Mandi. My focus is only going to be on the issues of development,” Vikramaditya Singh said after filling nominations.
Hitting out at actor and BJP candidate Kangana Ranaut, he said, “Kangana does not know things here. It is zero…We too will support that an airport come up here in the time to come. We will make all efforts for it but the location at which they were trying for it to come up, is a very fertile area…If we build an airport in such a fertile area, we will have to listen to the issues of farmers…”