Indian National lok Dal senior leader Ajay Chautala, who is currently out on parole from Tihar Jail, on Monday addressed party’s rally in Bhiwani on the occasion of 104th birthday celebration of his grandfather and former deputy Prime Minister late Chaudhary Devi lal.
Ajay arrived at the rally site accompanied by his younger brother Abhay Chautala, who is leader of Opposition in Haryana Assembly. INlD chief OP Chautala along with Ajay Chautala are currently serving 10-year jail sentence after being convicted, in teacher recruitment scam in Haryana.
Out on parole, INlD leader Ajay Chautala, asked the party workers to connect with the voters of Haryana to ensure that the INlD forms the next government in the State.
In his short address at the rally, Ajay Chautala also lashed out at the ruling BJP saying that the party has betrayed the general public by making big promises during elections but did nothing for them. launching a scathing attack at the BJP, he also said that people are disappointed with the ruling BJP, which came to power by invoking religious sentiments and jumlas.
During the rally, KC Tyagi, the Janata Dal (U) leader, recalled his long association with Chaudhary Devi lal and acknowledged the role of the late leader in the grooming of many young leaders during the decade of seventies.
Earlier, leader of opposition in Haryana assembly and INlD senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala read out the message of party chief OP Chautala In his message, the party chief assured that on return to power in Haryana, the loans of the farmers would be waived and the agriculture related electricity bills would not only also waived but their domestic bills too would be halved.
Taking care of the senior citizens, who were first given old age pension by the late patriarch of Haryana that signaled the beginning of welfare oriented policies in the country, OP Chautala assured that their pension would be enhanced to Rs 2500 per month.
Terming the promises to the youth by the BJP government as mockery and deception, he said that the INlD would provide employment to every household as well as unemployment allowance to the youth. In his message, OP Chautala also pointed out that during the last lok Sabha and State Assembly elections, the BJP had made a solemn promise to implement the Swaminathan Commission Report but renegaded on it as soon as it was voted to power.
Condemning the Manohar lal Khattar Government, Abhay Chautala, in his address, said that on three occasions, the whole country has witnessed the failure of the government to maintain peace resulting in violence, firing by the security forces and death and destruction of property. But if that was administrative failure then its policies regarding farmers and agriculture were decidedly anti-farmer and appeared vindictive, said he.
Hisar MP and INlD leader Dushyant Chautala, state INlD president Ashok Arora, INlD’s youth wing INSO president Digvijay Chautala also addressed the rally.
During his address, MP Dushyant Chuatala focused on serial failures of the BJP government in Haryana regarding the betrayal to the youth. From failure to fulfill its electoral promise of unemployment allowance to providing jobs, the government had failed in its ability to deliver, he alleged.
He also pointed that all across the board no regular government jobs were being provided and from College and University teachers to the police forces, the young were being provided jobs on contact basis.
Ashok Arora enumerated the fronts on which the BJP Government had either failed or been proven incompetent. Contrary to the perceived belief, the current BJP has been the fountainhead of repeated scams in the procurement of paddy and deliberated policies that have destroyed the cotton, maize and potato growers, he alleged.