Congress takes on BJP for ‘failure’ to keep poll promises

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Rewari, March 2

The Congress party launched its protest against the BJP governments at the Centre and the state for failing to fulfil their poll promises. The party workers not only organised a demonstration today, but also submitted a memorandum to the President and the Governor through the Rewari DC.

The protest organised by former minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav was attended by state Congress in charge Shakeel Ahmed, HPCC chief Ashok Tanwar and CLP leader Kiran Choudhry, besides other office bearers of the party from Gurgaon, Mahendragarh and Mewat districts.

Though the protest was aimed at opposing the Union Government’s move to change certain clauses of the existing Land Acquisition Act and for not implementing the Swaminathan Commission report, but the party leaders also slammed the state government for not accepting the employees’ demand of increasing their pay scales equivalent to their Punjab counterparts, scarcity of urea fertilizer and not facilitating joining of primary teachers selected by Hooda government.

“The BJP has failed to fulfil even a single promise after coming to power at the Centre as well as the state, causing acute resentment among all sections of society,” said Shakeel Ahmed, while addressing a gathering at Nehru park here.

Coming down heavily on the Union Government for allegedly not giving any relief to the common man in the budget, Ahmed said the BJP had worked to break the common man’s back by raising the service tax. He also accused the government of benefiting the capitalists by reducing the corporate tax from 30 to 25 per cent.

Tanwar said the BJP was disrespecting the mandate by not materialising its poll promises, while the people who supported and voted it wholeheartedly in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls were eagerly waiting for ‘acche din’.

He called upon the public to participate in the party’s Vidhan Sabha gehrao in Chandigarh on March 9 stating the success of this protest would make the state government to think about their interests.

Congress Legislature Party leader Kiran Choudhry targeted the state government for not providing adequate fertilizer, seeds and canal water to the farmers for making their ends meet. She said the farmers were on the verge of devastation due to the BJP’s anti-farmer policies.

Earlier, Capt Ajay Yadav described the changes made by the BJP government in vital clauses of the existing Land Acquisition Act and urged the gathering to resist the BJP government’s move of rendering the farmers landless.