BJP protests Relocation of Nahan Medical College Hospital

Nahan: Hundreds of residents, mainly affiliated to the BJP, on Tuesday staged a dharna at the Bara Chowk in the heart of the town against the shifting of Dr Yashwant Singh Parmar Medical College and Hospital 5 km away from the town.

Addressing the protestors, BJP state president Rajiv Bindal said that Nahan had only one big institute, the Nahan Foundry, having more than 1000 employees when Himachal Pradesh came into existence, reports PTI.

He alleged that the Congress government mishandled the oldest Foundry of North India and finally, the Nahan Foundry was closed and they did not open any other big institute in the Nahan town during their rule.

As per a media report in The Tribune, Even at its current partial capacity, the hospital handles 1,500 OPD cases daily, employs around 100 doctors and accommodates 500 medical students and staff, he noted. “Nahan will never again receive a project of this magnitude. Shifting it away would be a grave injustice.”

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It was the BJP government which opened big institutes like the medical college in the town with the allocation of Rs 260 crore for the construction of its buildings, said Bindal. He added that the construction work was smoothly being carried out during the BJP rule, but as soon as the Congress government took over in Himachal Pradesh, the construction work of the medical college buildings was stopped, citing no reason.

Extending his full support to the agitators, he resolved that he will participate in every agitation against the shifting of the Nahan Medical College.

In a swift response, Nahan MLA Ajay Solanki rejected the allegations as “baseless and politically motivated.” He asserted that the BJP was deliberately misleading the public in the absence of real issues, reports The Tribune.

“There is no plan to shift the medical college out of Nahan. The state government is working on an expansion proposal to improve both infrastructure and patient care. The idea is to enhance, not abandon,” Solanki clarified.

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