"Quick assessment should be made of the losses incurred by them and they should be expeditiously and adequately compensated," Kiran Choudhry, Leader of Haryana Congress Legislature Party said.
"The farmers have suffered the maximum under the insensitive BJP Government in Haryana. Last year, they lost their crops to untimely rains and hailstorms, suffered the pangs of second consecutive drought extending right into the winter, had whitefly attack ruin their crops, and now, the complete wipe-out of their recently sown cotton crop," she said in a statement here.
"First it was whitefly and now it is the severe heat wave that has ruined them," she said.
"Drugs and intoxicants ruled the roost during the entire
process of police recruitment in Kurukshetra district," he said.
Two candidates lost their lives during the process of recruitment and many were hospitalised for using intoxicants or performance enhancing drugs, he said, alleging that an organised drug mafia was operating under the nose of government, unchecked and unabated.
Congress also demanded a CBI probe in the appointment of Dhammapal Chawhan as additional managing director of Hartron.
"Khattar is indulging in favouritism to appoint his cronies in public appointments by negating rules in the book," he said.
Besides, Congress also demanded that the government should place in public domain the numbers and details of all organised drug gangs and individuals and also details of action taken against them.
"A special task force of competent police officers should be immediatley framed with overall monitoring to be done by the CM himself," he said.
