Haryana: BJP ‘Udhaar ki Sarkaar’, says Randeep Surjewala
Claims government taking loans to repay loans
Terming the Haryana Government as ‘Udhaar ki Sarkaar’, Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said on Tuesday that over the past 12 years, the BJP government had increased state debt by 456%.
Holding a press conference, he said in 2014-15, when the Congress government demitted power and the BJP assumed power, the state's total debt was Rs 70,925 crore. By 2026-27, it rose to Rs 3.91 lakh crore.
“The BJP government has borrowed Rs 74 crore every single day, that is Rs 3.08 crore every hour and Rs 5,14,000 every minute. Each one of Haryana's 2.80 crore citizens now carries a debt burden of Rs 1.41 lakh,” he claimed.
“Every year, new loans are taken to repay loans. In 2025-26, the BJP government took about Rs 98,000 crore in loans and used Rs 64,042 crore of that to repay earlier loans. Yet, it cleverly declared in the Budget that only Rs 36,376 crore had been borrowed. This was exposed by a CAG report,” he alleged.
“The Modi government's own NITI Aayog, in its Fiscal Health Index ranking of 18 states, has placed Haryana at the 14th position, below even Bihar,” he said.
He further said old-age pensions had been slashed by 40.74% in Budget 2026-27, a cut of Rs 2,730 crore; and the allocation for widows and destitute women had been reduced by Rs 685 crore.
Similarly, the pension for persons with disabilities had been cut by Rs 136 crore, and the budget for the Chief Minister Maternity Scheme by 33%, he added.
