Pataudi, March 3
Sowing the seeds of a new political outfit in the state, rebel Congress MP and former Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh announced the formation of a public forum, Haryana Insaaf Manch, at the “Insaaf rally” organised here today.

Rao Inderjit Singh at a rally in Pataudi township of Gurgaon district. Tribune photo

With this pressure tactic, Inderjit has taken his battle over Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s alleged regional bias in the state’s development to the next level.

The veteran Congress leader of the Ahirwal belt did not express any intention to quit the party. He maintained that the Chief Minister was trying to seek credit for various projects sanctioned and funded by the UPA regime at the Centre.

Though Rao Inderjit has been alleging step-motherly treatment with south Haryana for a long time, he and his supporters today openly castigated the Chief Minister for regional bias in development and selection of candidates for government jobs, ignoring the interests of the state’s other regions and for ignoring veteran leaders of the party.

“This is for the first time in my 37-year association with the Congress that I am publicly speaking about the lacunae within the party organisation,” he pointed out. The sitting Gurgaon MP even asserted that if the party high command wished to issue a show-cause notice, it should first be issued to Hooda as he was the one trying to divide the party by sidelining dedicated Congressmen.