Bhupinder Hooda: Congress produced players, BJP pushing youth towards drugs

Rohtak, July 14

Accusing the BJP government of ignoring interests of sportspersons, former Chief Minister and leader of opposition Bhupinder Hooda today said that the previous Congress government in the state had produced players by providing them facilities at the grassroots level, ensuring attractive jobs and other incentives, but the present BJP government was “pushing youth towards drug addiction”.

Hooda, accompanied by local Congress MLA Bharat Bhushan Batra, was interacting with mediapersons here.

“The Congress government had taken the youth towards sports so as to keep them away from drug addiction. We produced international players but the present BJP government is making the youth drug addicts. Youth are not being given jobs and basic sports facilities to hone their talent. Even the government has also changed the sports policy framed by the then Congress regime. The cash rewards of players are lying undistributed. They are also not being given jobs as per their achievements,” claimed the former CM.

He said the BJP government should encourage the players by providing them cash rewards and government jobs as per their achievements.

In reply to a question regarding the results of byelections in various states, Hooda said the BJP managed only two out of 13 seats in the byelections. The BJP would also meet a similar fate in the upcoming Assembly polls in Haryana as the people had outrightly rejected it by voting against its candidates in the recently Lok Sabha polls, he added.

On being asked about the INLD-BSP alliance, the former CM said there would be a direct contest between the Congress and the BJP in the upcoming Assembly polls. The INLD-BSP alliance was nothing but a bid to divide the votes but it would not happen as the people had made up their mind to bring the Congress back into power in Haryana, he claimed.

Putting the BJP government in the dock over law and order, the he said the state government had utterly failed to check rising crime graph in the state. “Not a single day passes without any murder and other big crime in the state. Every section of the society was feeling a sense of insecurity due to the state government’s failure in putting the criminals behind the bars,” he added.

Earlier, Hooda met local people at a tea shop on the Ashoka Chowk. He spent over half-an-hour there. Shopkeepers, traders and representatives of various social outfits were among those who called on the former CM on the occasion.