Four Congress MLAs, including former Haryana CM Bhupinder Hooda, face investigations by the ED and CBI in various cases. The Congress claims that the BJP is unleashing agencies because it anticipates a certain defeat in the upcoming assembly poll. A report by Pawan Kumar Bansal
Deepender Singh Hooda, MP, and son of Bhupinder Singh Hooda, has started the campaign “Congress mange Hisaab” in the state. The Congress is seeking the BJP government’s account of various acts, of omissions and commissions of its nine and half years rule in Haryana. Responding to this campaign, Union Home Minister Amit Shah thundered at a rally organised by the OBC cell of the party in the premises of Central University, Pali, in Mohindergarh. “Who are they to ask for Hisaab? I am the son of Bania and will seek Hisaab from them. It is a mere coincidence that two days after this, the Enforcement Directorate teams conducted raids at several places owned by Congress MLA from Mohindergarh constituency, Rao Daan Singh and his family members alleging ‘misuse of bank loan’. This was followed by the arrest of Sonipat Congress MLA Surinder Panwar and his son by ED in an illegal mining scam. Both Daan Singh and Surinder Panwar are confidants of Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
In the last Lok Sabha elections, Daan Singh was given a party ticket from Bhiwani-Mohindergarh Lok Sabha constituency on recommendation of Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Shruti Chaudhary, former MP and granddaughter of former Chief Minister Bansi Lal and daughter of former Haryana Minister Kiran Chaudhry, was also claimant to the ticket. But Hooda ensured it was given to Daan Singh, forcing Kiran Chaudhry and her daughter Shruti Chaudhary to quit the party and join the BJP.
Questioning the timing of arrests and raids by ED, Deepender Hooda while daring the BJP government said that they will not be pressurised by such tactics and continue their programme of seeking account of various acts of omissions and commissions of the BJP government.
Political analyst Devinder Singh Surjewala said that people of Haryana have made up their mind to defeat the BJP in the coming assembly elections. The BJP, out of fear, is playing and applying all methods and tactics to defame the main opposition party, the Congress. On the other hand Haryana CM, Naib Saini, while reacting to raids and arrest of Congress MLA Surinder Panwar by ED, said that wrong-doers will have to face music adding that ED is an independent agency which decides its course of action itself. Saini asked Deepender Hooda to give account of various actions during his father’s “ten years” rule in Haryana as CM. Saini alleged that corruption in recruitments was rampant during ten years of Congress rule.
