Cong to raise canal issue

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 22

Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said the Congress legislators will bring adjournment motions on the scrapping of the Dadupur-Nalvi canal project, the collapse of law and order in the state and the issues being faced by bajra farmers in the Assembly session beginning tomorrow.

He was addressing mediapersons after a meeting of legislators owing allegiance to him at his residence here today.

He said the MLAs would also bring calling attention motions on the Murthal and Prithla toll barriers and deaths due to dengue in the state and take up issues such as non-implementation of the court order on the Sutlej-Yamuna link canal and the murder of a student in Ryan International School in Gurugram.

“The BJP government in Haryana has been a “complete failure”. It has reduced itself to an ‘event management’ company with no achievements to showcase in its three years of rule in the state,” he added.

“We have already raised the issue of compensation to those who lost their lives in the violence in Panchkula following the conviction of Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh,” Hooda said.

The former Chief Minister added there had been no employment generation and instead people have lost jobs. The Congress would seek a White Paper on investment that has come into Haryana since the BJP came to power in the state.

The former Chief Minister said, “The BJP is an “event-management” company and its government has nothing more than ‘grand shows’ to its credit”. Former Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Sharma said the BJP’s programmes such as “Beti bachao, beti padhao”, “Khel Mahakumbh”, “Gita Mahotsav” and “Happening Haryana” were mere shows.

“We are hoping that the BJP will go ahead with its plan to hold early Assembly elections along with the parliamentary elections. The people of the state will be indebted to the BJP if it decides to have early elections and provide a reprieve of nearly nine months to them,” he said.

Former minister Geeta Bhukkal, Karan Dalal, Udai Bhan, Anand Singh Dangi, Jagbir Singh Malik, Jai Tirath Dahiya and Jaiveer Singh attended the meeting.