Hooda attacks govt on CID row, paddy scam

Strap: Says BJP busy giving depts to each other, shifting officials

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 23

Former CM and Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said today that the government was busy in distributing departments among themselves and transferring officials, but was yet to take any decision in people’s favour.

Talking on the CID row between CM Manohar Lal Khattar and Home Minister Anil Vij, he said, “Vij had himself said that CID was the eyes and ears of the Home Department. So, now he is left with only arms and legs. This government has become crippled,” he said.

Hooda demanded a CBI probe into paddy procurement, saying it was not a scam of Rs 100 crore but thousands of crores. “I don’t know whom they want to protect. Another scam is in mining. Even the course of Yamuna has been changed. The CBI should investigate it too,” he said.

He mocked at the government for not able to finalise the Common Minimum Programme despite completion of three months in power. “It is a directionless government. The state’s unemployment rate is the highest in the country, the economy has been destroyed, but they are bothered about distribution of departments among themselves,” he said.

On the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA), he said that matter was subjudice and the apex court would decide it.

“The government between the BJP and JJP has not been formed on ideology but for selfish interest. Such a government will fall on its own. I just want to ask when they will start working,” he said.

He raised the issue of problems of sugarcane farmers. “In crime against women, Haryana has the third highest rate in the country, according to National Crime Records Bureau. Also, the number of drug overdose deaths in the state is more than Punjab in 2018,” he said. He also questioned the PLPA Amendment.