ASSEMBLY POLL 2024: Candidates yet to be announced, electioneering picks up in Rohtak

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, September 2

Even as neither of the prominent parties, the Congress and the BJP, has declared its candidates, electioneering has picked pace in the Rohtak Assembly constituency, with leaders of both parties contacting electors and addressing meetings on a daily basis. Offices of leaders of both parties are buzzing with workers and supporters.

Former Home Minister and Congress leader Subhash Batra organised a ‘Jan Milan Samaroh’ at the community centre in Model Town here last evening in support of sitting Congress MLA Bharat Bhushan Batra, whose candidature is believed to be certain.

Accusing the BJP of dividing society on caste lines, Subhash said people would not forgive the BJP for it. Several office-bearers of the BJP women wing also joined the Congress on the occasion.

“Over the past decade, the BJP has caused a lot of damage to the state and society. There is no section of society that has remained unaffected by its divisive policies,” he said, adding that on coming to power, the Congress would fulfil all their demands.

Speaking on the occasion, Bharat Bhushan Batra said Rohtak had developed during the Congress government, but the BJP government had put the city in back gear, even in terms of basic amenities.

“The entire city has been struggling to get drinking water for the past five years. I repeatedly flagged the issue in the Assembly but no one paid heed. The BJP has made Rohtak a city of potholes and it did not get a single major project,” he said.

Meanwhile, former minister and BJP leader Manish Grover, who has contested the past five Assembly poll on the party ticket, is also carrying out public contact programmes and addressing meetings.

Confident about winning the ticket this time too, Grover is enumerating development works undertaken during the BJP regime in the past decade.