Then apply rule to all elections, says Hooda

Shiv Kumar Sharma

Yamunanagar, August 28

Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda has opposed the state government’s move of minimum educational qualification for candidates in panchayat elections.

Addressing a public meeting at the grain market in Jagadhri today, he said the government should then apply the condition to Lok Sabha and Assembly elections too. “In fact, the government should first ask its MLAs who don’t fulfil the criterion to step down,” he said.

Hooda alleged the government was deliberately delaying the elections as it was afraid of facing the people. “The tenure of panchayats has expired but the government appears in no mood to conduct the elections anytime soon,” he said.

Hooda also took up the prevailing unrest among sugarcane producers of Yamunanagar, saying the government should take over and operate the mills if their owners were reluctant to do so.