Govt trying to project it has surplus power: Hooda

Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today hit out at the BJP government in the state, stating that people were facing power shortage on one hand while the ruling outfit was trying to project as if it had "surplus power".
Hooda said that during the tenure of the previous Congress government, a number of power plants had been set up including the Jharli project in Jhajjar district, which was inaugurated by Congress President and then UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi over seven years back.
Talking to reporters at Kurukshetra on the sidelines of Congress' Dalit convention today, Hooda claimed the state government had written to the NTPC that it had surplus electricity and it didn't have a need of their share of electricity from the Jharli power plant.

"We will oppose this move of the government and hold a protest outside the Jharli plant on January 5. They want to surrender the state's share in the project, which we are not going to allow.
"They are trying to show that power has become surplus in Haryana whereas the reality is that there is acute shortage faced by the people," said the former Chief Minister.
Earlier, Hooda hit out at the Manohar Lal Khattar government for allegedly failing on all fronts.

At the convention in Kurukshetra, senior Congress leaders were present including Shakeel Ahmad, besides senior leaders from the state that included former Union Minister Selja, State Congress chief Ashok Tanwar, CLP leader Kiran Choudhary and her daughter and former MP Shruti Choudhary, and former Haryana Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav.

Talking to reporters, Kiran Choudhary alleged that the Khattar government was "trying to shift the medical college which is to come up at Bhiwani to some other location outside Bhiwani".
The Congress leaders also slammed the BJP government over alleged increasing crime graph in the state that included incidents of violence against the Dalits.