Haryana ex-CM Bhupinder Hooda accuses BJP of creating lakhs of ration cards for votes
Claims ration cards have now been cancelled
Haryana former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Bhupinder Singh Hooda alleged that the BJP created lakhs of fake ration cards to garner votes in the elections. He said these cards had now been cancelled.
“As per official figure, the number of ration cards was 11,09,865 in 2020-21, which increased to 26,40,475 in 2022-23 and 51,96,380 in 2024. Similarly, the number of beneficiaries increased from 52,40,111 to 2,13,00,000. This means that the BJP declared 80 per cent of Haryana residents as below poverty line (BPL). However, after the elections, 41 lakh ration cards were cancelled across the country, with the highest number of cancellations (13,43,474) in Haryana,” claimed Hooda, while interacting with mediapersons here on Thursday.
He maintained that this had stopped the ration supply for more than 70 lakh people. The BJP clearly cheated the public to gain votes. He said the saffron party also cheated women in a similar manner. The party promised to give Rs 2,100 per month to 85 lakh women across Haryana, but now its representatives were talking about giving this amount to only five lakh women, he said.
Hooda also accused the BJP of deliberately excluding people from Haryana from recruitments. “In the Haryana Power Utilities (HPU) Assistant Engineer recruitment, only 29 out of 214 candidates in the general category are from Haryana. In the HPSC English Assistant Professor recruitment, the selection of youth from Haryana is less than eight per cent. Other examples include Assistant Professor Political Science for which 11 out of 18 aspirants are from outside Haryana,” he pointed out.
Former CM further alleged that in the SDO (Electrical) recruitment, the BJP government once appointed 78 out of 80 candidates from outside the state. “When these recruitments were conducted again, 77 out of 99 positions were filled by candidates from outside the state. In the Lecturer Group-B Technical Education recruitment, 103 out of 157 positions were filled by outsiders,” he said.
He maintained that in the HCS recruitment, one out of three positions went to an outsider, in the DHO recruitment, 12 out of 16 positions, and in the BDPO recruitment, four out of seven positions were filled by people from outside the state.
“Furthermore, positions are deliberately kept vacant in the HPSC recruitments. Only 151 candidates were called for interviews for 613 posts of English Assistant Professor. This is a blatant attack on the rights of the youth of Haryana, he said.
