Haryana’s main opposition party INLD on Saturday blamed the Manohar Lal Khattar government for chock-a-block situation witnessed in Gurgaon after heavy rain, saying the BJP only believes in “hollow slogans” without taking any concrete steps to tackle basic things.
“Tall claims exposed”
“They change Gurgaon’s name to Gurugram. The tall claims about the development undertaken in the Millennium City get exposed in just one hour of heavy rain. Vehicles got stuck in massive traffic jams trapping young, old, women, children, sick and ailing for up to 16 hours.
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“The government is to be blamed for the mess witnessed in Gurgaon and not anyone else...it has little concern about people’s problems,” INLD senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala told reporters here.
Attacking the BJP government, the Leader of the Opposition, said: “If this heavy rain was to come in entire Haryana at one go, then situation would be as worse as witnessed in Gurgaon.”
“Where was the government when people were stuck for hours. The government which fails to protect the interests of the people has no right to stay in power,” he said.
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Long tailbacks were witnessed in gridlocked roads in Gurgaon in the last two days due to severe waterlogging on National Highway-8 after heavy rain lashed Delhi’s satellite city, leaving thousands of commuters stranded and forcing authorities to clamp prohibitory orders near Hero Honda chowk.
Schools were also ordered to be shut down for two days.
The prohibitory orders were lifted last night after the situation on the roads normalised but overnight rain contributed to slow traffic movement causing trouble to commuters.
Mr. Chautala claimed the BJP government only believes in giving slogans, just to divert the attention of the people from real issues.
“From time to time, they keep on coming out with one thing or the other. These days they are going gung ho about their claim to revive the (mythical) Saraswati river. They are only filling which was once river’s course with water from the tubewell. They are wasting crores of rupees on this. Everyone knows they do such things, like they talked about Beti Bachao— Beti Padhao, Swachh Haryana, Happening Haryana, teaching Gita etc. Now, likewise they are misleading people about Saraswati river,” Mr. Chautala claimed.
“Anti-farmer policy”
He also attacked the Haryana government for promoting PM Crop insurance scheme, alleging it was an “anti-farmers” policy, aimed to “benefit only private insurance companies“.
Mr. Chautala hit out at State agriculture minister Om Prakash Chankar for promoting the scheme whereby premiums are “compulsorily deducted” from farmers accounts in banks and cooperative societies. -- PTI
“BJP only believes in hollow slogans without taking any concrete steps to tackle basic things”