New Delhi:Ahead of the parliamentary elections in Himachal Pradesh later this year, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur is going to ask centre to give tribal status to the Hatti community of the Sirmaur district of the state.
Talking to ETV Bharat in New Delhi on Sunday, CM Thakur said a BJP delegation led by him will meet Union Minister Amit Shah about the pending demands of 3 lakh people belonging to the Himachal Hatti community regarding the tribal status which was offered in Uttarakhand to the people belonging to the same community.
Taking a jibe at the Aam Aadmi Party, Thakur said that it had disintegrated before its debut in the state. "The situation is such that they have to dissolve their whole state unit, and now they have no leadership in the state. "When they (senior AAP leaders) went there, Himachal people were not given space on the stage and were neither allowed to speak. Himachal is a small state but its people are self-respecting and the way they are disrespected I don't think the party has any future in the state," he said.