Eyeing 2024 poll, Bhupinder Singh Hooda woos electorate at 'Chintan Shivir' in Panchkula
Panchkula, August 1
The one-day “Chintan Shivir” of the Haryana Congress today took up several burning issues in the state and promised several sops to the electorate ahead of the 2024 Assembly elections.
Former Haryana Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda tried to woo the electorate by promising a monthly old-age pension of Rs 6,000, 300 units of free electricity, free plots of 100 yards for the poor families at the “chintran shivir” organised at a hotel near Panchkula.
Hooda also supported the demand for caste census and said the income limit for the creamy layer would be increased from Rs 6 to 10 lakh if the Congress government was formed after the 2024 Assembly polls.
Haryana Congress chief Udaybhan said the party leadership was determined to oust the BJP-JJP coalition government and said that they would not rest till the departure of this government. “The new party organisation would be declared in August,” he said.
Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda highlighted upcoming mass contact programmes of the party aimed at mobilising the party cadre.
Senior party leader Raghbir Kadian put up a resolution on agri-related issues and said the government should fix
minimum support price (MSP) under the C2 formula (50 per cent profit over the input cost) as suggested by the Swaminathan Commission.
The party also demanded that farmers should be given legal guarantee on the MSP. Another senior leader and MLA Geeta Bhukkal put up a resolution on Dalit and backward classes and issues related to women.
She said these sections were being “ignored” under the present BJP-led government.
MLA Jagbir Malik put up a resolution on the alleged deteriorating law and order situation in the state. He said even MLAs were facing threats and no one is feeling safe.
“Neither MLAs nor the public is safe. A DSP-rank officer was killed recently in broad daylight. It seems people’s security was not on the agenda of this government,” he said.
Another legislator Shamsher Gogi asked why the government was running away from a high-level independent probe into the illegal mining issue.
Bigwigs missing
General secretary in charge of Haryana Vivek Bansal was absent as he was reportedly ‘not invited’, while MP Randeep Surjewala is out of country. Tosham MLA Kiran Choudhry and her daughter Shruti Chaudhry, who is HPCC working president, too, had other ‘prior engagements’.
Poor law & order
Neither MLAs nor the public is safe. A DSP-rank officer was killed recently in broad daylight. It seems people’s security is not on the agenda of this government. — Jagbir Malik, MLA
