• Is it possible that a cabinet-rank person is not aware of the cabinet decisions from 28 June to 10 July?
Shimla, BJP’s former minister Sukhram Chaudhary, spokesperson Sandipani Bhardwaj, spokesperson Ajay Rana, and spokesperson Rakesh Sharma said that what was feared has happened: employees got angry, and government hotels were given to private players. He said that the script of this big corruption has been being written for a long time and the most surprising thing is that the Chief Minister and his cabinet rank HPDC chairman are trying to cheat people. Is it possible that a cabinet-rank person is not aware of the cabinet decisions from 28 June to 10 July? It seems that Himachal on sale is ruling the state.
Government property will be made private and old employees will lose their jobs.
BJP leaders said that what was feared, the Himachal government is doing the same now. The government will earn money by privatizing the property and old employees will lose their jobs. An order was issued to privatize 14 government hotels.
There is panic among the workers; employees will protest. 14 government hotels will now be given to private hands. The responsibility of operation and maintenance will now be taken away from the hands of government employees and given to a private company and to complete this work, the Principal Secretary of the Tourism Department has also given a deadline of 3 months to the MD of HPTDC. This is unfortunate; that is, the government has given up on its own hotels and now it is preparing to hand over their locks and keys to someone else.
The biggest thing is that this decision was taken at a time when the revenue of the tourism corporation has increased: BJP
BJP leaders said that the biggest thing is that this decision was taken at a time when the revenue of the tourism corporation has increased. Meaning the hotels were recovering from losses. The pace of earnings was improving. The staff hoped that the situation would improve, especially when the government announced privatization. So the question arises: when the hotels started making profits, then what was the need to sell them? But this is not just today. This is the heat of a conspiracy that has been brewing for many months because the BJP says that this entire action is an auction script. The government is deliberately giving the hotels to private hands. That too through the back door. Now if you remember, this is the news of November 2024, when the Himachal High Court ordered the closure of 18 loss-making hotels of HPTDC. Then the court had called them white elephants and said that these hotels are becoming a burden on the state. The BJP also said at that time that the hotels are not at loss but deliberately wrong figures were presented. The employees of HPTDC had clearly said that the government is preparing to give these hotels to private hands by showing them in loss. It was also alleged that the chairman of the corporation, RS Bali, got more than 70 people from his own assembly deployed in these hotels. That too without any qualification and experience and now the same hotels on which there was a dispute in November 2024, which the court had asked to close or improve. Now the government has decided to give them to private hands. Look at the list of hotels. Everything will become clear. Hotel Hill Top Swarghat, Hotel Lake View Bilaspur, Hotel Bhagal, Apple Blossom Fagu, Shivalik Parwanoo, Giriganga Khada Patthar, Mamleshwar Chandi, Chashal Rohru, Old Ross Common Kasauli, Sarvari Kullu, Uhal Jogendrang, Tourist Inn Rajgarh Way Side Amenity Bhararighat and, most importantly, Kashmir House Dharamshala Now you yourself think about whether a property like Kashmir House in Dharamshala was really at a loss or whether there was a special buyer behind it.
