Kumari Selja raises civic issues of Gurugram, Faridabad in Parliament

Sumedha Sharma

Gurugram, July 25

Taking a jibe at factionalism in the BJP, Congess MP Kumari Selja has advised former Haryana CM and Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar to listen to his MP ‘colleagues’ from Faridabad and Gurugram. Both Faridabad and Gurugram MPs Krishan Pal Gurjar and Rao Inderjit Singh are Ministers of State in the Modi government and Khattar-Rao rift is an open secret. Rao Inderjit has held the state government responsible for solid waste exigency in Gurugram and admitted it impacted his winning margins in the Lok Sabha elections.

Training guns at the incumbent BJP government, Selja raised the issue of infrastructural collapse in Gurugram and Faridabad. Selja said the BJP was obsessed with changing names as even Faridabad was called Smart City Faridabad, but civic amenities in the twin cities had deteriorated with each day.

“Faridabad is very close to Delhi but is nothing more than a haphazard urban slum with piles of garbage everywhere. The local MP is a minister at the Centre, but he does not see the condition of his own city. Look at the plight of the Millennium City, Gurugram. The minister from there has already lamented about the poor condition of Gurugram in an interview. The former CM is a big minister at the Centre now and he should listen to his colleagues. I know the Lok Sabha results disappointed you but you owe this to the people of Haryana for giving you 10 years,” said Selja. Selja’s power-packed statement in Parliament got a thumbs-up from Gurugram and Faridabad residents who lauded the Congress leader for raising their issues in the Lok Sabha saying that was the only way to the BJP government would hear them.

With Rao Inderjit Singh putting his own state government under the scanner over civic crisis in Gurugram and even seeking a CBI inquiry against it, it got support from many Congress leaders. Rohtak MP and Congress leader Deepender Hooda took to social media, asking the BJP to first investigate its scams rather than sending ED behind the Congress MLAs. “Their own MP and minister seeks a CBI inquiry for a scam of around 350 crores and they are sending the ED behind the Congress MLAs,” wrote Hooda on X.

‘Infrastructural collapse’ in twin cities

Training guns at the incumbent BJP government, Selja raised the issue of infrastructural collapse in Gurugram and Faridabad. Selja said the BJP was obsessed with changing names as even Faridabad was called Smart City Faridabad, but civic amenities in the twin cities had deteriorated.