A day after former BJP chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur accused the state government of political vendetta; in a rebuttal Congress MLAs strongly denounced his statement.

In a joint press statement issued here on Wednesday, the MLAs, Rajesh Dharmani, Sanjay Rattan and Sunder Singh Thakur, said it appears that the former chief minister was in a hurry to please his political bosses at New Delhi and thus resorting to such baseless statements.

The MLAs said that the present Congress led state government headed by the Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has been given a huge mandate by the people of the state for five years and the state government is committed to fulfill all the 10 guarantees and other election promises made by the Congress Party on the eve of state Assembly Elections.

They said that the former chief minister must have some patience as the Congress government has just taken over the reins of the State and would soon come into action mode.

“The previous BJP Government at the fag-end of its tenure announced opening and upgradation of several institutions in the state with an eye on the general elections,” they said, adding that all these institutions were opened and upgraded with a sole motive to woo voters without any budget provision and irrational thinking.

“Not even a single institution was opened or upgraded on public demand and that the state government has decided to wind up such institutions. However, all these would be reviewed and if found to be viable and required would be opened after making proper budget provision,” they added.

The MLAs reminded the former CM of the previous BJP tenure when almost all the development oriented decisions of the previous Congress Government were scrapped as soon as the BJP came into power in the state.

They said that the BJP government always resorted to politics of vendetta and vengeance, whereas on the other hand the Congress Government headed by the Sukhu was committed towards balanced development of the state and welfare of the poor and downtrodden.

The MLAs advised him to have patience as the government has directed all the departments to come up with concrete and detailed proposals so that development oriented policy could be finalised.