PCC chief tells Himachal Chief Minister to come clean on IPL expenditure

Published>Sat, May 01 10 05:54 AM

State PCC president Kaul Singh Thakur once again raked up the issue of IPL matches held at Dharamsala and asked the government to make public the amount charged from the organisers.

He termed the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association headed by BJP MP Anurag Thakur as family affair of the chief minister and his son. "We demand that HPCA should make names and addresses of its life-time members public and tell how many of them are former players," he said.

The Congress leader also refuted charges of phone tapping levelled by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal against the Central government and termed it as baseless allegations.

Talking to the media, Thakur said the chief minister was involved in alleged phone tapping of Congress leaders as he had been heard in one of the controversial CDs directing state's vigilance chief to tap phones of Union minister Virbhadra Singh .

He also reiterated his charges against the government for diluting Section 118 of the Tenancy and Land Reforms Act to allow land mafia to acquire huge tracts of land in the state. There is clear government patronage in the recent land deals. He said the Congress, on return to power, will inquire into all land scams and send the violators to jails.

Meanwhile, the party, in its meeting today, finalised the arrangements to celebrate 125 years of the Indian National Congress in Himachal Pradesh.

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