Ashok Tanwar seeks Vij’s resignation

Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Fatehabad, June 23

Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar today lashed out at the Khattar government and said on the one hand the government talked of ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhano Abhiyan’ while on the other hand nursing students holding protest at Ambala have been thrashed by the police.

Addressing people of various villages of Fatehabad during his Kisan Mazdoor Samvad Yatra today, Tanwar alleged that the excesses on nursing students was not an isolated incident of thrashing of women during the BJP regime as striking guest teachers, computer teachers and laboratory attendants had also met a similar fate in the past.

Seeking Health and Medical Education Minister Anil Vij’s resignation on this issue, Tanwar demanded that the police officials responsible for thrashing of women should be brought to book.

The Congress leader criticised Education Minister Rambilas Sharma for making tall promises to guest teachers before the Assembly polls and leaving them in the lurch after coming to power.

He claimed that there had been a number of occasions when BJP ministers had said something and then taken a U-turn as per their convenience. Senior Congress leader Devender Singh Babli alleged that the common man had been suffering a lot during the present BJP government.