Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu offered floral tributes to former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on his birth anniversary at the Congress office, Rajiv Bhawan Shimla.
The Modi government seems to be feeling the effects of price rise in the country which has made the lives of the common man worse over the last three months.
State Congress organization secretary Rajneesh Kimta reviewed the arrangements for the function and urged party workers to make it a grand success.
The calendar was released at the state party office at Rajiv Bhawan in Shimla by state party chief Kuldeep Singh Rathore and Mandi MP and wife of former CM
The lunch diplomacy is being considered as an attempt to show unity and strength amid BJP leaders time and again raising the issue of Congress not having any CM face in the run up to assembly polls scheduled to be held next year.
The elections witnessed a reflection of the past developmental workers undertaken by Congress stalwart, Virbhadra Singh, a six-time Chief Minister, five-time MP, and former Union Minister.
This bypoll holds significance as there has been leadership change at the top level in both parties.
After filing nomination papers in Mandi in Himachal Pradesh where she was accompanied by AICC secretary Sanjay Dutt, state Congress chief Kuldeep Singh Rathore and the Leader of Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri among others, Pratibha Singh remembered the way former CM Virbhadra Singh used to care for her.
Rathore will also accompany Pratibha Singh, the wife of former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh in filing nominations from the Mandi parliamentary constituency on Friday.
She also raised the issues of horticulturalists of the state and added that they weren’t getting fair prices for their produce which was a matter of great concern.
