Development works in Palwal to get a push: Deepender Hooda

Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda on Saturday said development works, including the Metro rail project for Palwal, that remain stalled for the past 10 years would resume with the change in the government after October 5 Assembly elections.

Addressing an election meeting at Ghori village in support of party candidate Karan Singh Dalal, he said residents which had been promised the Metro rail facility between Faridabad and Palwal and between Faridabad and Gurugram had been left cheated as no work had taken place during the tenure of the double-engine government. He charged the BJP with stalling all development works taken up during the Congress rule. He said the ruling party had been engaged in tactics of dividing people on religion and caste lines to stay in power.

The Rohtak MP said the youths who wanted to join the Army had also been left betrayed due to the implementation of the Agnipath scheme. He said instead of withdrawal of this scheme the government had been trying to justify it by assuring them to get them adjusted later.

He said Haryana had slipped to the lowest spot in terms of development and earned the top spot in unemployment, crime, corruption and drug addiction. Without naming anyone, he said senior leaders of the BJP had been targeting only Bhupinder Singh Hooda in their campaign as they had no issue on basis of which they could seek vote in Haryana this time. “Yeh Haryana hai Pradhan,” he quipped at the opponents.

He said while the reports from all the five seats won by the Congress party in Lok Sabha indicate that the Congress was in the driver seat. He said the party was set to form the next government under the leadership of Bhupinder Singh Hooda on October 8.