The tech-savvy Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar on Friday held first live question and answer session on Twitter responding to hundreds of queries.
The Chief Minister, who is fairly active on the social media, posting tweets on corruption and party’s poll promises and day-to-day happenings, held a
one hour Q&A session under #ManoKeMukhSe on Friday evening.
The questions were related to virtually every issue ranging from corruption to Government’s new initiatives, his foreign visits to State Government’s strict legislation to deal with cow slaughter. Some questions were also suggestions on bringing in new initiatives for public welfare while some took a dig at BJP’s failure on delivering on its poll promises.
While many questions were answered, there were also instances of individual queries not being responded to. A special team looked after the Q&A session and helped the Chief Minister in answering the questions.
Answering a series of questions, the Chief Minister said the State Government would give 50,000 permanent jobs and would make efforts to attract investment from private sector.
On a question related to strengthen the public transport system in Gurgaon, the Chief Minister said ultra modern city bus service
would soon be launched by Municipal Corporation, Gurgaon, HSIIDC and HUDA.
Responding to the demand of one more air conditioned bogey in Kisan Express, the Chief Minister said he will take up this matter with the Railway Minister.
On the question of corruption, he replied that the State Government is not only thinking towards eradicating corruption, but is also taking steps towards it. On being asked to evaluate that real solution for traffic problem in Gurgaon, the Chief Minister said we are looking into various options including the pod system.
After the session, the Chief Minister posted on Twitter, “Due to the time constraint, I apologise for not being able to answer all questions individually. Was a wonderful experience connecting to all.”
The 61-year old Chief Minister has been actively utilising the social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to share information about various day-to-day events and initiatives of Haryana Government. He has more than one lakh followers on Twitter.
In 2014, Khattar became BJP’s first Chief Minister in the State. While Chief Minister’s Q&A session was going on, the Congress tried to trend #KhamoshKhattar raising a number of issues from scams to miserable condition of farmers in Khattar’s Government.