Congress member of Parliament (MP) from Rohtak Deepender Singh Hooda on Sunday criticised the BJP Governments — both at the Centre and in Haryana — for trying to take credit for projects announced by the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre.
Describing the withdrawal of his invitation for Saturday’s “bhumi pujan ” of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Jhajjar district as an insult to parliamentary democracy and people of the Rohtak lok Sabha constituency, Deepender said that it was an unprecedented act and smacks of vendetta politics. “The matter will be raised in Parliament.” the three-time Congress MP said.
“The foundation stone for the cancer institute was laid by former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on January 3, 2014. The BJP-led NDA at the Centre wanted to remove the foundation stone and invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi for holding a fresh ceremony. They, however, dropped the idea when I opposed it. It is a clear case of vendetta politics,” Deepender said at a press conference on Sunday.
“I have tried to find out a parallel to this disgraceful episode but there’s none. Even two Congress MlAs from Jhajjar district -Raghuveer Singh Kadian (Beri) and Geeta Bhukkal (Jhajjar) were also not invited for the function,” the Rohtak MP said.
The MP added the BJP government in the state and the Centre had not announced any new project for Haryana but were trying to take credit for all the projects set in motion by the previous UPA regime.