Chandigarh, Sep 23 (PTI) Senior Congress chief Pawan Khera on Monday took a dig on the BJP, saying it was shocking that nobody within the ruling social gathering desires to place up posters of former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar throughout campaigning for Haryana polls.
“Khattar’s posters are usually not seen anyplace. It’s shocking. He has been chief minister for nine-and-a-half years. What has occurred?. Nobody desires to place up his image, what has occurred. Is Khattar nobody’s chief (within the BJP),” Khera requested.
Khera’s counteroffensive comes amid the BJP’s overtures to Congress chief Kumari Selja to affix its ranks amid stories that the Sirsa MP was not blissful over ticket distribution for the Haryana meeting polls.
Union minister and former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had just lately invited Selja to affix the saffron social gathering, amid stories that she was staying away from the marketing campaign.
Requested to touch upon Khattar just lately inviting Selja to affix the BJP, Khera quipped, “Who’s providing, what’s the state of affairs of their residence (social gathering)”.
“…The one who’s making the supply, when he was faraway from the publish, what all messages he despatched and the place he despatched? Some day it is going to be disclosed. And one in all our senior leaders will make this disclosure. I haven’t got permission to talk extra (on this),” Khera advised reporters right here.
Selja on Monday dismissed talks of a potential swap to the BJP, accusing the ruling social gathering of diverting consideration from its “failures” in Haryana. “I’m a Congressperson, I’ll stay a Congressperson”, she stated.
Khera stated that individuals will oust the BJP from energy in Haryana and convey again the Congress with an awesome majority.
Mounting an assault on the BJP, he stated that just some months earlier than polls, they changed Khattar as chief minister. “They made Khattar chief minister after which made him vanish someday, now he’s not seen even of their posters.
“They can not conceal their failures of 10 years by changing their chief minister… Someone has to provide account of nine-and-a-half years. They can not escape from it,” stated Khera, the Chairman of the AICC’s Media and Communications.
He stated the BJP can’t quell folks’s anger just by changing Khattar with Nayab Singh Saini.
“Whether or not it’s making Haryana the primary state in unemployment, be it the difficulty of examination paper leaks, or the failure of the federal government on the regulation and order entrance together with on situation regarding girls’s safety, this authorities has failed on each entrance,” he alleged.
He stated BJP leaders speak much less about their very own work and extra concerning the Congress.
“This exhibits they’re jittery. They hold speaking concerning the Congress on a regular basis. What have they carried out after being in energy for 10 years. They do not discuss that, however they may speak concerning the Congress,” he stated.
Even of their manifesto, they needed to take the Congress’ assist. This exhibits how a lot chapter there’s within the BJP, he stated.
“Drug menace, which was unheard till few years in the past, has now unfold its tentacles,” he stated.
Amid stories that Selja was disgruntled over ticket distribution for the Haryana Meeting polls, Khera stated Selja herself has dismissed these claims, whereas the BJP is exploiting the difficulty for petty political acquire, he stated.
Khera identified that everybody is conscious of how the BJP has disrespected its senior leaders.
When requested concerning the BJP’s allegations that Selja’s therapy within the Congress is an insult to Dalits, Khera claimed Dalits confronted essentially the most atrocities in the course of the BJP’s rule.
He additionally stated the BJP has in its historical past appointed just one Dalit president and that too for a brief interval, whereas the Congress has appointed 4 Dalit presidents.
To a different query on the BJP attacking the Congress on reservation, he stated, the Congress has by no means opposed reservation and by no means will.
The 90-member Haryana Meeting is scheduled to go to polls on October 5 and the counting of votes will probably be undertaken on October 8.
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