Congress government led by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu distanced itself from minister Vikramaditya Singh’s statement and shared not any decision regarding the mandatory display of names by stalls and eateries has been taken by the administration. Meanwhile, Vikramaditya Singh was summoned to Delhi and reprimanded by the Congress high command over a controversial order issued by his department mandating food outlets across the state to display the name and address of their owners. This development followed once the Congress came under scrutiny on social media as well as within the party over the move, as it had duly criticised a similar move by the Uttar Pradesh government during the Kanwar Yatra a few weeks back. According to sources, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress high command was quite upset with Vikramaditya Singh, CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and the Himachal Pradesh in-charge Rajeev Shukla. Meanwhile, the whispers in Congress that after the assembly election of Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, the Cabinet reshuffle might take place in Himachal Pradesh. Sources indicate that the Congress high command is also looking to change the in-charge of Himachal Pradesh Rajeev Shukla, where the party failed to win any of the four seats in the parliamentary elections, and despite having numbers to win the Rajya Sabha seat in the state, the Congress lost.
