Swaraj India, which has decided to contest all the 90 Assembly seats in Haryana where elections are due later this year, on Monday released its second list of eight candidates.
As the party announced its candidates here, its national president Yogendra Yadav hit out at the BJP government for allegedly misleading the people on several issues.
Mr. Yadav said Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who is travelling across the State with his “'Jan Ashirvaad Yatra”, was not presenting the true picture especially on unemployment and women safety.
“The Swaraj India will launch ‘Jan Satokar Abhiyan’ from September 1, to expose the truth about the false claims being made by him,” said Mr. Yadav.
Mr. Yadav alleged that the BJP government was concealing the dire state of unemployment. “The BJP is using the 18,000 Group D jobs to hide the bigger reality of lack of job generation. As per the latest report ‘Unemployment in India, January-April 2019’, released by the CMIE [Centre for Monitoring of Indian Economy] Haryana is at the top of the major States in unemployment rate.”
“Unfortunately the youth of the State were facing hardship due to the frauds committed by the previous Indian National Lok Dal government, the corruption and nepotism of the Congress government and now the sheer incompetence of the BJP government,” said Mr. Yadav.
Shalini Malviya, presidium member of the party, said the incidents of rape, kidnapping and harassment of women “have gone up manifold between 2015 and 2018, contradicting the government’s claim of women safety”.
Party’s State president Rajiv Godara said most of the eight candidates in the second list were involved in public activities. “The party has so far lived up to its promise of one-third tickets to women and youth: of the 18 candidates declared so far, five are women and seven youth.”
