Hitting out at the opposition, Haryana’s former Home Minister and senior BJP leader Anil Vij on Sunday said that the saffron party was prepared for elections at any time in the state. “The date of elections cannot only be extended but it can also be brought forward by a week. We are fully prepared, if the Election Commission of India (ECI) changes the date of elections by a week, we are ready,†he said.
Notably, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) on Thursday wrote a letter to the ECI to defer the polling by almost a week apprehending low turnout in view of a host of holidays around the polling date. The opposition Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) slammed the BJP for seeking to change the polling date.
Senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the BJP had “accepted defeat†by requesting to postpone the Assembly election date, asserting that the people were ready to throw out the incumbent government.
Senior BJP leader Anil Vij also responded to the reports of Vinesh Phogat joining Congress. He said: “It is a decision of any party.â€
Vij said that the BJP recently held a marathon meeting that lasted two days and sent the names of three to four probable nominees for every seat in the 90-member Haryana Assembly to the Central Election Committee.
Talking about the crime against women, Vij said: “Atrocities against women should stop, make any law for this, but along with this, politicians, sociologists, and religious leaders should also make the society aware. It is a good thing if such cases go to a fast-track court, punishing the culprit by hanging them. But, no one is talking about improving society.â€
Poor Need Jobs, Not Rations: Kumari Selja
Narnaul: Congress MP from Sirsa Kumari Selja on Sunday alleged that the BJP-led Government has failed to address the problem of unemployment in the State over the last 10 years. Selja, addressing the gathering during the Congress Sandesh Yatra in Narnaul, said that the poor people need jobs, not rations. “There are two lakh vacant posts in the State, and the backlog has not been filled. The situation is the same for the SC and BC backlogs. Under HKRN, employees are being hired, and they are being mentally, physically, and financially exploited, without any consideration for equal pay for equal work,†she added.
Selja further said that Government schools are being closed, the right to education for the children of the poor is being taken away, and scholarships for SC-BC classes are not being provided. Instead of doing good for the poor, the government is bent on making them poorer, she added.
“The youth prepare day and night for competitive exams, traveling 200 kilometers to reach exam centers. After taking the exam in the morning, they find out in the evening that the paper was leaked and the exam has been cancelled,†she said.
