Announces new political outfit Haryana lokhit Party
Former Home Minister of Haryana, Gopal Goyal Kanda, withdrew his support from Bhupinder Singh Hooda Government as an Independent MlA on Wednesday accusing the State Government of tapping his phones.
“Name any Minister or MlA, whose phone is not being tapped here, every Minister or MlAs phones are being tapped by the State Government,” Kanda, who recently came out of jail on bail in the airhostess Geetika Sharma suicide case, said after withdrawing support from the Government.
He added he was the State home minister and was aware of everything, but due to some compulsions, cannot reveal all details. “That was the reason I even left my official vehicle four years ago,” he said. He claimed that Hooda’s Ministers “were powerless” and had no say in running of affairs of the Government.
The legislator accused the Chief Minister of betraying him during the crises. “When Congress Government fell short of majority in 2009, I was the first to extend support to it,” he said. Kanda, however, said that his “trust had been betrayed” and there had been occasions when Chief Minister Hooda did not stand by him.
Mentioning the ongoing case against him in the Delhi court, he said, “At the very outset Chief Minister Hooda should have asked for an inquiry of the suicide note of Geetika Sharma when it had surfaced as it involved one of his ministers, but he had not done so.”
Kanda was a minister in the Hooda Government before he was forced to step down after his involvement in the case in August 2012. “I will not speak much about the case since the matter is sub-judice, I have full faith in the judiciary and the truth will prevail,” he added.
After submitting the letter of withdrawal of support, Kanda said he would be launching his political outfit —Haryana lokhit Party — at Gurgaon on May 2.
Despite the withdrawal of support, there is no threat to the Congress Government in Haryana, which has 45 members that includes the five legislators of the Haryana Janhit Congress who joined it four years back.
The Government also has the support of six other Independent MlAs and lone BSP member in the 90-member House. The Haryana Assembly polls are due in October.
However, State Home department has refuted the allegations levelled by former home minister Gopal Kanda saying that no attempt whatsoever has been made to tap his phone and of other Ministers in the State.
The department said phone tapping is carried out only in those cases where the person found involved in any heinous crime or there is any threat to law and order situation.
The Superintendent of Police of the district concerned forward the request of phone tapping or interception to the Inspector General concerned. Thereafter, after going through the request, the IG prepares a proposal whether the phone number in question is involved in a particular crime and then sent the proposal to the Home department for further action.