“Chandigarh Is Asking The place’s Our MP”: Congress’s Swipe At Kirron Kher

Chandigarh:

The Chandigarh unit of the Congress launched a social media marketing campaign on Thursday questioning the alleged absence of BJP MP Kirron Kher from her constituency throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Chandigarh Congress chief Pradeep Chhabra stated the second-time BJP MP ought to have been making rounds of the town throughout the pandemic to take heed to folks’s points, “however she is nowhere to be seen”.

“Kirron Kher has not been seen in public for the previous couple of months. Although she attended a gathering with administration officers nearly a fortnight in the past, she has not been seen making public appearances and listening to folks’s grievances,” Mr Chhabra stated.

“The pandemic has unfold in Chandigarh. The municipal company doesn’t find the money for to pay salaries. Persons are going through plenty of issues and there’s nice resentment among the many public, who’re asking the place is their MP,” the Congress chief stated.

“Throughout these troublesome occasions, it’s the major accountability of the MP to unravel folks’s issues, however she is lacking. Subsequently, our get together has launched a social media marketing campaign in order that the voice of the folks of the town reaches each nook and nook,” Mr Chhabra stated.

Chandigarh has reported almost 5,000 COVID-19 circumstances and 59 fatalities.

Whereas Ms Kher couldn’t be contacted over the telephone, she had responded to comparable allegations by the Congress a number of months in the past. In April, she took on those that criticised her on social media over her alleged absence from her constituency throughout the outbreak.

 Ms Kher had stated she was very a lot within the metropolis and making certain that important gadgets reached folks. In a video shared on Twitter, Ms Kher had stated she was being consistently focused by sure folks on social media.

“I’ve been right here in Chandigarh from day one and all people ought to have identified that. All people is aware of within the (metropolis) administration,” Ms Kher had stated. “I wish to say that it isn’t needed to point out your presence. It’s a lockdown. It means you must keep indoors,” she had stated.