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SHIMLA: Pong dam is the Hiroshima of Himachal Pradesh, independent MLA from Dehra, Hoshiyar Singh said during the winter session of the legislative assembly on Wednesday. He said considering their number, state government should issue a notification to rehabilitate oustees in Himachal Pradesh. "We have become refugees in our own state," the MLA said while raising the issue under rule-130 in the state assembly. Thousands of cases are pending in the courts of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh." He said that process to acquire land for the construction of dam was started in 1965 and process to allot the land in Rajasthan commenced in 1972..