After voicing his opinion against Jat reservation, BJP MP from Kurukshetra, Raj Kumar Saini has now questioned BJP-led Haryana Government's much hyped Rs 50 crore 'Saraswati Revival Project'.
Saini has condemned the Government's initiative to
dig tubewells at various places to run water into the Saraswati river.
“Only by installing tube wells, dreams cannot be fulfilled,” Saini said during a district vigilance committee meeting held in Kurukshetra on Tuesday.
Raising questions on the project, he asked, “Will the Saraswati start flowing after installing a tube wellIJ People's money should be used only for appropriate works.”
The Centre and the State Government are working on the project to restore the mythical Sarasvati river. It is being claimed that the waters from the underneath Saraswati had already oozed out at Kalleaam near Jagadhari, and that tube wells are being dug in Yamunanagar and Kurukshetra to run water into the Saraswati drains.
Notably, an RSS leader Indresh Kumar had inaugurated Sarasvati restoration work at Pipli during a 'Gita Jyanti Samaroh' here last month, but the tube well had failed to work at the time of the inauguration. At that time, local BJP MlA Subhash Sudha had ordered an enquiry into the tubewell failure.
Saini, however, said that he is not against the restoration project but it is his personal view that if the water had oozed out at few places from underneath the river, there is no need to install tube-wells.
The BJP MP had last year threatened to resign from his post if Jats are given reservation.
Warning BJP against any tempering with the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs, the MP had also said that if the reservation for OBC is played with, it will bring the same results for the BJP, what it has brought for Congress.