Hry Assembly session: Cong attacks BJP-JJP govt over 'corruption', farmers' issues

Main opposition Congress on Wednesday attacked the ruling BJP-JJP coalition in Haryana over "corruption", unemployment and farmers' issues and said the two allies are yet to frame their common minimum programme.

Participating in the discussion on the Governor's address in the Haryana Assembly during the ongoing budget session, Congress leader Kiran Choudhary said the government has done nothing for the welfare of the farmers of the state.

She also targeted the government over the alleged paddy and mining scam, deteriorating situation in the Aravalis, saying the "destruction" of the forest cover there will cause immense damage to environment.

Choudhary said the unemployment rate in the state was 28 per cent, the highest among all the states of the country.

On the farmers' issue, she said during the previous Congress government, the sugarcane MSP was hiked by Rs 193. But the BJP government in the last six years had increased the same by a mere Rs 30, she added.

Choudhary said the input cost of crops including fertilisers, seed price, diesel price among others has gone up very high in the last few years, but the government was not taking any step to help the farmers.

On the common minimum programme (CMP) issue, she said, "Though the BJP and the JJP had made tall promises to the people at the time of assembly polls, yet the common minimum programme of the coalition government has failed to move beyond formation of a committee."
Chief Minister Khattar replied to the Congress member, "This is an old school. I do not know what the background of that land is. But what I know is that management running the institution had some dispute and there were two groups If management wants to collectively run the school, we have no objection. But if anyone wants to grab land, then it will not be allowed."