Chiranjeev raises demand for Ahir regiment to strike chord with voters

Feeling the pulse of the people of Ahirwal, Rewari’s outgoing MLA and Congress nominee Chiranjeev Rao is raising the demand of Ahir regiment prominently during his poll meetings in a bid to strike a chord with electors. Interestingly, he is also reminding the voters of his efforts made in the past to mount pressure on the Centre to accept this demand.

“The formation of the Ahir regiment is not a demand, but a right. I have made sincere efforts for it. I not only carried out a signature campaign, but also took out a padyatra to mount pressure on the Centre for its formation. I raised the issue in the Vidhan Sabha too,” said Chiranjeev while addressing a poll meeting in his constituency on Sunday.

The MLA further maintained that wherever there was a protest regarding the demand for Ahir regiment, he went there and extended his support. “On coming to power, the Congress will get a resolution for the formation of the regiment passed in the Vidhan Sabha and send it to the Centre for implementation,” he said.

The demand is so significant in Ahirwal that prominent leaders of various parties have flagged it on public platforms many times in the past. In July, Union Minister Rao Inderjit, while addressing public meetings in Kosli and Jatusana towns here, also mentioned the issue in his speech.

Chiranjeev is the son of Ahir stalwart and national president of Congress OBC Department Capt Ajay Singh Yadav who also served as an MLA from Rewari six times and a minister in the state government.

“My father had raised this issue in Parliament for the Ahir regiment when he was in power. I too had supported the community’s demand by going to the dharna in Delhi despite being a part of the government. Many other people from the community assumed the post of Defence Minister but they did not raise the voice for the Ahir regiment,” Rao had claimed in his speech at that time.

Besides Ahir leaders, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, too, has kept flagging this demand at various platforms stating that the Ahir regiment is not just the demand of South Haryana but the entire country.

Even, his son Deepender Hooda, while addressing his first thanks-giving meeting in Kosli town here on being elected MP in June, promised the people to continue his fight for the formation of Ahir regiment, stating that Ahirwal was the land of soldiers and a large number of Army personnel had sacrificed their lives for the nation so the demand was justified and should be fulfilled without delay.