Hoodas fire fresh salvos at govt over jobs, ‘slow growth’
Tribune News Service
Gurugram/Faridabad August 4
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his son and Rohtak MP Deepender Hooda continued their tirade against the BJP government on Sunday.
Accusing the BJP of exploiting the youth, Hooda said the Congress would not just win the Vidhan Sabha elections, but would also revive the lost dignity of labour and jobs.
Training guns at the Nayab Saini government, he said the youth were fooled into temporary recruitments in Kaushal Nigam and promised permanent jobs if the Congress came to power.
The former CM, who was in Gurugram to address a labour rights conference, said: “The sword of dismissal always hangs over their heads, but after the Congress forms the government, the workers employed under Kaushal Rojgar Nigam will be made permanent by making a policy. Permanent recruitments will be made on two lakh vacant posts to free the youth from the hassle of temporary jobs.”
“The Congress government of Haryana had fixed the highest minimum daily wage and MNREGA wages in the country. The Haryana Congress is fully committed to giving the highest MNREGA wages and minimum daily wages in the country in future also. On the other hand, the BJP is pushing the poor workers into the quagmire of exploitation by playing with the labour laws, because it believes in privatisation while the Congress in nationalisation,” he added.
Hooda said the BJP had implemented its privatisation policy in the field of education as well. Haryana Congress president Chaudhary Udaibhan said the Congress was the voice of the oppressed and exploited workers.
In Faridabad's Ballabgarh, addressing a public meeting under ‘Haryana Mange Hisaab Yatra, charged the BJP government of poor work and failure to sustain the pace of progress unleashed during the Congress party rule. He said the cities like Faridabad had been turned into urban slums despite claims of spending hundreds of crores on civic infrastructure. “Lakhs of people here had been made to live without the basic civic amenities of water, sewage and roads despite Faridabad being one of the highest revenue generators in the state,” he said, adding the BJP had no answer to questions raised by the Congress.
