Shimla, Oct. 15 -- Leader of Opposition (LoP) and former Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday accused the Congress government of making election-oriented announcements to divert public attention from unfulfilled poll guarantees and administrative failures, questioning its intentions behind the proposed reorganisation of administrative units and creation of new districts.
Talking to mediapersons in Mandi, Thakur said the government should have undertaken the exercise of creating new districts at the beginning of its five-year tenure if it genuinely intended to improve administration and serve public interest.
Raising the issue close to the next Assembly elections, he alleged, reflected the government's political compu...