The Congress has always disrespected Dalit leaders, be it Ashok Tanwar or Kumari Selja, and even did not give Dr B.R. Ambedkar Bharat Ratna when it was in power, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said. Amit Shah said this at a public meeting in Tohana town in Haryana's Fatehabad district on Monday.
"If there is anybody who can protect the SC and OBC reservation, it is the PM Narendra Modi," he said while slamming Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on the reservation.
While saying that in the last 10 years of the BJP government in the state, Shah said, "Haryana has become free from corruption and hooliganism and is rapidly progressing on the path of development.".
Rohatak, Sonepat, Jind and Hisar are often termed the Jat heartland of the state though the community also holds a significant and sometimes influential presence in Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Sirsa and Fatehabad. Jats form around 25 per cent of the state's electorate and have traditionally dominated politics in the state.
Eyeing to win over the voters in the region, who mainly comprise Sikhs, HM Shah asked Rahul Gandhi, "What are you talking about? You have a history of disrespecting the Sikh community. Thousands were killed on roads during the Delhi riots and your party was at the helm. Not even children and mothers were spared.Rahul baba, if you want to do something, then wear a turban, go to a gurdwara and apologise to our Sikh brothers.
Minister Shah was speaking at a Jan Ashirvaad Rally in support of the party's candidates Devender Singh Babli from Tohana and former parliamentarian Sunil Duggal from Ratia, with top party leaders in attendance.
Clarifying the recruitment of all Agnivesh into government jobs after retirement from the India Army, Shah said, "About Agniveer, Rahul Baba is misguided the youth. I am firm in what I say, and today I am saying that none of the Agnivesh of Haryana will be left. The Haryana government will provide them with jobs equivalent to their pension," he said.
He said the middlemen in Delhi are waiting for the Congress to come into power in Haryana. "I want to ask the people of Tohana, would you want to give Haryana in the hands of the middlemen?"
That's what the BJP leader has to say, the Congress governments were there to make the son-in-law of Delhi happy. The land of the farmers was allotted at cheap rates. In the government of Bhupinder Hooda Saheb, there is a lot say in matters of property dealers and the son-in-law and corrupts. The BJP has ended the government of the dealer and son-in-law.
"Hooda Saheb has promised to give two lakhs jobs. It's in the manifesto of the Congress and I want to ask the leaders of the Congress party that these two lakh jobs will be given on the 'kharchi-parchi' (corruption-favouritism) system," Shah said in his 25-minute address in Hindi. End.
In the 2019 Assembly elections, the BJP, which won 40 seats, well below the 75-plus target, and was six short of a majority in the 90-member Assembly, announced an alliance with the Jannayak Janta Party led by Dushyant Chautala, great-grandson of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal.
The rival Congress won 31 seats, the less-than-a-year-old JJP, which broke away from the state's once major regional Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) owing to family disputes, bagged 10 seats. Seven Independents and one each of the INLD and the Haryana Lokhit Party had also won.
In the 2014 Assembly polls, BJP had won 47 seats and formed the government in the state for the first time.
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