KAITHAL: Leader of Opposition (LOP) and former Chief Minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
said the massive turnout at
Jan Aakrosh Rally
at Kalayat was an indication of the impending change in the state and the fact that the Congress in returning to power in the next election.
Addressing the Jan Aakrosh rally organized in Kalayat grain market, Hooda expressed deep concern over the increasing crime and breakdown of law and order in the state. He said that even when his government came in 2005, the law and order situation was very bad, but as soon as he took oath as the Chief Minister, he gave a stern warning to the criminals and asked them to either give up crime and join the mainstream, or leave Haryana.
“Today, Haryana has been described as the most unsafe state in the country in the Social Progress Index (SPI) report of the Government of India. This time, when the
Congress government
comes again, all the goons will be thrown out of Haryana,” he stated.
Expressing his anguish, Hooda said that before 2014, Haryana which was number one in per capita income, per capita investment, law and order, sports and providing employment. “Today Haryana is number one in unemployment, crime, drugs and corruption,” he noted.
Describing Skill Employment Corporation as a den of corruption, Hooda said the government is giving jobs on contract and is also sending the youth here to war-torn areas like Israel, while other countries are bringing back their people from there. He said that 2 lakh permanent government posts are lying vacant in Haryana.
“The government is playing with the future of children is being played with through Kaushal Nigam, Agniveer. After 10 years of this government, Haryana has lagged far behind other states of the country in development,” he stated.
Hooda said the government has trapped the farmer in a web of portals and said crops are getting ruined due to rain and hail, but farmers have to wait for their turn. Referring to the hailstorm that occurred yesterday, he demanded immediate Girdawari and compensation to the farmers and said that the Haryana government has not given compensation of Rs 422 crore to the farmers for the last 3 years.
He said the BJP government had promised to double the income of farmers in 2022, and while income did not double, input costs of the farmers definitely doubled and said the debt of the farmer has increased.
Enumerating his works for farmer welfare and poor welfare, he said that the Congress government had waived off loans of Rs 2200 crore of farmers, built lakhs of houses and given plots of 100 square yards to lakhs of poor families, while every section of the state is troubled by this government.
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