Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Saturday said the people of Haryana would elect the party in the next Assembly elections with a three-fourth majority and teach a lesson to the BJP for duping and insulting the people.
Addressing a ‘Badlaav Rally’ at the Sohna grain market, Mr. Surjewala said the people had made up their minds to elect Congress candidates from all 10 Lok Sabha seats in the State and strengthen the hands of Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
Launching a scathing attack on the Modi-Khattar governments at the Centre and in the State respectively, Mr. Surjewala said both BJP regimes duped the people of South Haryana by discriminating against the area in the fields of education, jobs, irrigation, development and “respect”.
"South Haryana had voted for them by electing 11 BJP MLAs in the last Assembly elections as the people fell for PM Modi’s false promise of ‘Achche Din’. The people have now seen the reality and made up their mind to settle the score,” he said.
Mr. Surjewala said the BJP talked about development of everyone during elections, but after elections it has only worked for the personal development of its own leadership. He asked why the Modi government was not bothered about the crores of distressed farmers who were not getting the promised rates for their farm produce if it could write off ₹2.83 lakh crore loans taken by a few big industrialists.
VAT hike flayed
He also criticised the Khattar government for making petrol and diesel costlier by increasing the VAT rates on petrol from 21% to 26.25% and increasing VAT on diesel from 9.24% to 17.22% and collecting ₹18,000 crore VAT on petrol and diesel from the people of the State.
