Jhajjar, April 7
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has lambasted Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for cheating hapless farmers of the state by wresting their land and later handing it over to the rich and powerful to further their commercial interests.

“First the government serves notices to acquire land to frighten the farmers. Then, when the scared farmers resort to distress sale, the middlemen and high-ups eventually make hundreds and thousands of crores of rupees from the same land, while the poor farmers are left high and dry,” the BJP leader said while addressing an election rally at the grain market here today.

“The ‘shehzada’ lauds Hooda’s land acquisition policy as it favours his brother-in-law Robert Vadra. He (Vadra) is a magician. He did not have a single rupee in his pocket at the outset, but managed to make Rs 50 crore within three months,” Modi said amid a thunderous applause from the gathering.

Striking a chord with the masses, Modi pointed out that various Congress governments at the Centre and in the state had failed to provide worthwhile employment to the youth of Haryana during all these years.

“The people are angry with the Congress government and waiting for their moment to teach it a lesson. The winds of change are blowing across the country and the Congress will not be able to open its account in several states, including Haryana,” he asserted.

The rally was organised as part of the electoral campaign of BJP’s Rohtak candidate Om Prakash Dhankhar and attended by senior party leader Jagdish Mukhi, state BJP president Ram Bilas Sharma, Bhiwani-Mahendergarh nominee Dharambir Singh and Sirsa candidate Dr Sushil Indora.

Lashing out at the Congress for promoting dynastic rule, the BJP leader said the dynastic politics could be ‘fatal’ for a democratic set up. But the Congress had encouraged such politics at the national as well as state level with impunity.

He pointed out that the father-son duo of Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Deepender Hooda in Haryana and the mother, son and son-in-law trio of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Robert Vadra in Delhi were typical instances in this regard.

In an obvious reference to Uttar Pradesh, the BJP leader predicted that the Congress would not be able to touch the double-digit mark in big states.

Modi also castigated the Congress for having failed to check narcotic smuggling and the menace of fake currency notes, which were detrimental to the youth’s health and the country’s economy, respectively. 

First the government serves notices to acquire land to frighten the farmers. Then, when the scared farmers resort to distress sale, the middlemen and high-ups eventually make hundreds and thousands of crores of rupees from the same land, while the poor farmers are left high and dry.
—Narendra Modi, BJP pm nominee