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Shimla, Aug. 11 (PTI): A no-confidence motion moved by the Congress and the CPI-M against the Jai Ram Thakur government in Himachal Pradesh was defeated by voice vote in the state Assembly on Thursday. The opposition MLAs walked out of the House during Chief Minister Thakur’s reply to the debate on the motion. The House witnessed a stormy debate as the opposition members targeted the BJP government over law and order, unemployment, price rise and other issues. The ruling BJP rejected the charges claiming the opposition has failed to come up with any concrete issue. The opposition parties moved the motion, just four months before the state is going to the Assembly polls. Leader of Opposition Mukesh Agnihotri, Congress MLAs Jagat Singh Negi, Ram Lal Thakur, Harshwardhan Chauhan, Sukhvinder Sukhu and lone CPI-M legislator Rakesh Singha spoke in support of the motion. Chief Minister Thakur, his Cabinet colleagues Rakesh Pathania, Bikram Singh Thakur, Sukh Ram Chaudhary and BJP MLA Ra
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IN an exemplary service of justice, though coming almost a decade after the incident of assault and rioting near Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh, 15 accused persons have been declared guilty and awarded penalty. The verdict assumes significance and has among the convicts a powerful politician the MLA from Kalka in Haryana, Pardeep Chaudhary. While when the FIR was registered at the Nalagarh police station in 2011, Chaudhary was an INLD MLA from Kalka, he has since shifted to the Congress, making the move a couple of weeks before being again elected on the party ticket in October 2019. His might in the area is evident from the fact that he wrested the Kalka Assembly seat from the sitting BJP MLA, Latika Sharma.