Pre-poll disquiet in Himachal BJP as CM Jairam faces top brass, Congress heat over HPPSC row | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express

Rachna Gupta's oath-taking as the new HPPSC head, which was scheduled for Thursday morning, was cancelled at the eleventh hour without any clarification.

With less than three months to go for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, the controversy over the appointment of the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (HPPSC) chairperson has come as a fresh worry for the state BJP rank and file.

The Jairam Thakur-led BJP government issued a notification last Wednesday elevating to the HPPSC chairperson’s post its member Rachna Gupta, a former journalist. Gupta’s oath-taking as the new HPPSC head, which was scheduled for Thursday morning, was however cancelled at the eleventh hour without any clarification.

With the Thakur government keeping mum on the issue, the HPPSC chairperson’s appointment has continued to remain in limbo.

The last-minute cancellation of Gupta’s oath-taking sparked a row as the principal Opposition Congress trained its guns on CM Thakur over it. Asking Thakur why was the event scrapped, the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Mukesh Agnihotri, said it was the first time in the history of the hill state that the HPPSC head’s oath-taking event was cancelled after the issuance of notification.

The row also sent ripples through the state BJP amid a widespread perception in its ranks that the event was scrapped following the intervention of the central party leadership. The episode was seen as the party leadership’s snub to Thakur’s leadership just ahead of the polls, even as the Congress is gearing up to mount an aggressive campaign and the AAP is looking to make inroads in the state.

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/pre-poll-disquiet-in-himachal-bjp-cm-jairam-congress-hppsc-row-8105497/


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