Congress, BJP clash over PPP, property ID portals
Online portals for property ID and Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) have become a subject of clash between the ruling BJP and the main opposition party, Congress, in the ongoing election campaign in the region.
Though the candidates of the ruling BJP have been claiming that the government had introduced PPP and property ID to bring transparency and cut down irregularities in government departments, Congress leaders have been announcing that all such portals or IDs will be wiped off if they come to power in the state to save the masses from. Karan Singh Dalal, Congress candidate from Palwal segment, during public meetings, says that all programmes or policies, which had become a source of corruption and exploitation of the common man, will be rolled back after the Congress forms the government in the state.
Describing the PPP and the Property ID portals as dens of corruption, Dalal says recoveries will be made from officials and departments where bribes were being collected in the name of preparing or correcting the ID or the PPP. He alleged people were being made to run from pillar to post to get the verification of the documents or the NOC.
Sharda Rathore, a former MLA and now contesting as Independent candidate from Ballabhgarh, too, said that such policies or programmes need to be withdrawn as these had failed to serve any purpose and were instead resulting in the persecution of residents. Parag Sharma, Congress candidate from this segment, said she supported the announcement of the party leaders like Bhupinder Singh Hooda to wind up irrelevant programmes launched in the past 10 years. Neeraj Sharma, Congress candidate from NIT Assembly segment, said his government would replace the online recruitment process of HKRN (Haryana Kaushal Rojgar Nigam) with regular government jobs by filling up around two lakh vacancies in the government departments.
However, Mool Chand Sharma, outgoing Cabinet Minister and BJP candidate from Ballabhgarh, defends the PPP, Property ID and the HKRN systems, claiming that these had, in fact, wiped out “corruption” prevalent through the “parchi-kharchi” practice (recommendation and bribe) in government recruitment during the Congress rule.
