Faridabad: “The people of Haryana have understood the BJP’s political strategy of their lies, loot and dividing the society along caste and communal lines and will not fall prey to these tricks again. On the other hand, the Congress believes in taking all sections along and social harmony is on top of our political agenda,” said Ghulam Nabi Azad yesterday.
The Congress general secretary said that his party would win all 10 Lok Sabha seats from Haryana and that it had witnessed tremendous public response during the ‘Parivartan Yatra‘. Congress president Rahul Gandhi too had joined this Yatra from Jagadhri in Yamunanagar to Karnal when he visited the state Friday.
Azad made the statement while attending the last day of the yatra, which started from Gurgaon and went across the state. The yatra covered all 10 LS constituencies and 60-70 out of 90 assembly segments.
Speaking at the event, Azad, who is in-charge of Haryana, said the people were fed up with the BJP and that party stands united. He exuded confidence that Congress will stage a comeback in the state assembly as well, which are due later this year.
All the senior leaders from the state, including former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Congress leaders Ajay Singh Yadav, Kiran Choudhary, state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar took part in the yatra.
“All the leaders of the state sat together in a rath (high-tech bus), they stayed together, had food together and spoke in one voice and sought votes for each other. Our opponents have been spreading a false propaganda that our party is divided into factions. We got wonderful support from the people and this can be estimated from the fact that the yatra started at 9 pm and was supposed to finish at 7 pm, but went on way past midnight,” he said in a statement.
Through their vote, farmers, youth, women, government employees are keen to avenge the massive misgovernance in Haryana. The BJP had promised to implement the Swaminathan Commission report, provide two crore jobs a year, give 15 lakh to everyone after bringing back black money from abroad, but they forgot all about these issues after gaining power. All they have done in the last five years is rename all Congress schemes and take credit for our achievements, he alleged.
Azad promised that if Congress came to power, farm loans will be waived and under the Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY) scheme, the poor will get Rs 72,000 per annum.