Political Vendetta: Cong Govt decides to restore foundation stone 

 Himachal Pradesh new Congress Government decided to restore foundation stone 

plaque of Atal Tunnel laid by Sonia Gandhi as it has been removed by previous Jai Ram Thakur Government before Prime Minister Commission this tunnel. Soonafter taking charge of Chief minister office New Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhoo and Deputy CM Mukesh Agnihotri decided to  taken up the matter regarding mysterious removal of plaque by raising this issue with concerned  authority.Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu  said that the State Government would take up the matter of  restoring the foundation stone plaque of Atal Tunnel Rohtang laid by Sonia Gandhi in the capacity as Chairperson of National Advisory Council on 28th June, 2010.Chief Minister said that plaque of foundation stone was missing which was insult to democracy and must be restored at the earliest. He said that the 9.02 kilometer tunnel was built by the Border Road Organization to connect landlocked Lahaul-Spiti district.It would be pertinent to mention here that the Congress Party has earlier also taken up the matter regarding restoration of the missing plaque and its restoration with authority concerned.

During predessor of Sukhoo MLAs and party leaders alleged that foundation stone are being removed to highjack the credit of big projects launched during previous Congress and UPA government. Congress party also raised this issue in the state assembly seeking restoration of such foundation stone. Congress party and former Leader of Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri who is elected as new Deputy Chief minister accused the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Jai Ram Thakur Government for unleashing poltical vendata to rename the Congress government schemes and programmes and demolish the inauguration stone.