shimla sukhvinder singh sukhuled congress government has repealed the himachal pradesh loktantra prahari samman act 2021 amid strong opposition from bjp mlas who created a ruckus in the house and even walked out the previous bjp regime had started the himachal pradesh loktantra prahri samman scheme to give honorarium to the people jailed during the emergency under maintenance of internal security act parliamentary affairs minister harshvardhan chauhan who presented the bill said we are not bound to continue wrong policies of the previous government the governments of shanta kumar and prem kumar dhumal were in power twice but they never paid any attention to loktantra praharis former cm jai ram thakur said if the government believes in a democratic system then it should reconsider abolishing this law pwd minister vikramaditya singh said that the previous bjp government had killed democracy by bringing this law such an honour should be given only to the freedom fighters he said tnn