Rajeev Shukla refuted any claims of alleged divisions in the party and said that the party is united.

Amit Shah attacks previous governments in Haryana saying hooliganism and corruption were rampant in past regimes.

Earlier in the day, Kharge filed his nomination for the president of Congress and said he was fighting for a big change in the party New Delhi: A total of 30 Congress leaders including Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh and Manish Tewari have backed Mallikarjun Kharge in the party’s presidential polls... The post appeared first on .

On Wednesday also 42 leaders left the party. All these leaders say that they will join the newly formed party of Ghulam Nabi Azad.  Mumbai: People who supported Gulam Nabi Azad are still abandoning the party after he left Congress. Tuesday saw the resignation of 65 party officials who backed... The post appeared first on .

New Delhi [India], April 4 (ANI): Calling Punjab's resolution claiming Chandigarh as political rhetoric, senior Congress leader and former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday said Chandigarh belongs to Haryana and will always remain so.

Chandigarh Mar 21 PTI Following the opposition objection to changes in the Haryana domicile rules the state government on Monday informed the Assembly that the condition of residing for a minimum of five years in the state shall be applicable only for specific purposes under the Employment of Local Candidates Act 2020The Act pertains to providing employment to the youth of the state and the grant of employment generation subsidy for industrial units of HaryanaDeputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said this in response to a question raised by Congress member Varun ChaudharyChaudhary had sought to know the reason for which the Haryana government reduced the earlier condition of 15 years for domicile to five years nowThe condition of residing in Haryana for a minimum of five years shall be applicable for the specific purpose of employment of residents of the state under the Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act 2020 and the grant of employment generation subsidy to industrial units under the Haryana Employment and Entrepreneurship Policy 2020 or other sector-specific industrial policies the deputy chief minister informed the HouseRecently senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda had said that by reducing the time period to get domicile of the state this government wants to change the demography of Haryana so that the rights of the local people can be curtailedIn response to another question Chautala said a Special Girdawari revenue survey will be conducted in all 22 districts of the stateMLAs who feel that villages of their area have suffered damage due to rain and hailstorm recently and those who are not satisfied with the report prepared by the patwari can write the names of those villages and submit to the deputy commissioner concerned and to him as well for necessary action he saidChautala informed that the initial report of the preliminary Girdawari conducted from February 1 to March 1 has been received and later orders have been given to conduct a special GirdawariThe final report of both will be prepared and after that the affected farmers will be given compensation he said PTI SUN VSD IJT

New Delhi Mar 18 PTI G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad met Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday and said he conveyed suggestions to strengthen the party a day after members of the dissenting group held a flurry of meetings over measures to revamp the organisationSpeaking to reporters after meeting Sonia Gandhi Azad said it was a good meeting with the Congress president with the discussion centred on how to prepare and fight unitedly the forthcoming assembly polls to take on rival partiesPlaying down the meeting he told reporters that it may be news for you but we keep meeting the Congress president at various intervalsMrs Gandhi keeps having discussions with leaders to strengthen the organisation A few days ago the working committee had met and suggestions were asked as to how to strengthen the Congress party and what were the reasons for the defeat in five assembly polls I had also given my suggestions he saidHowever it is not possible to record and remember all suggestions he added Azad said he reiterated suggestions to strengthen the Congress organisation The meeting comes a day after members of the G-23 held a flurry of meetings over measures to revamp the partyAfter the Group of 23 pitched for an inclusive and collective leadership in the Congress Bhupinder Singh Hooda one of its members met Rahul Gandhi on Thursday and the two leaders were learnt to have discussed a revamp of the party organisation a key demand of the dissenters The meetings are being seen as an attempt by the Gandhi family to reach out to the G-23 which has shown signs of increasing aggression on the leadership issue after Congress abject loss in the assembly elections in five states Earlier on Friday Azad also met veteran Congress leader Karan Singh and said he came to greet Singh on HoliRahul Gandhi a former Congress president had called Hooda for a discussion on the political situation in Haryana However the discussion spilled over to the partys abysmal performance in the electionsSonia Gandhi had earlier reached out to Azad on Wednesday ahead of the G-23 dinner meeting at his residenceThe leaders of the grouping have since held a series of meetings at Azads residenceThe party leadership wants to resolve the differences with the G-23 and is reaching out to its leaders It is learnt to have deputed some senior leaders for parleys with the dissenting group to resolve the differences according to sources PTI ASK ANB ANB

Chandigarh Feb 22 PTI Former Haryana chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday said that debt corruption and crime have increased in the tenure of the BJP-led government in the state He also expressed strong objection to the changes in the Haryana Domicile Rules saying they will cause huge loss especially to those in the scheduled castes SC and other backward class OBC categories The reserved categories will have to face a much tougher competition for employment than before Hooda said after chairing a meeting of the State Congress Legislature Party here Debt corruption and crime have increased in the state whereas development has come to a standstill the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly said The meeting discussed in detail the issues of public interest to be raised in the budget session of the Haryana assembly beginning here next month Hooda said Congress MLAs will raise issues like unemployment damage to farmers crops due to recent heavy rains illegal mining scams and agitation of anganwadi workers he said We have made the proposals and these issues will be vigorously raised in the House to force the government to respond The legislature party meeting will be held once again on March 2 in which we would further discuss our strategy for the budget session the Congress leader said will talking to reporters On the Haryana Domicile Rules Hooda said that reducing the condition of 15 years for domicile to five years referring to an earlier decision is an attack on the rights of the people of Haryana This will especially cause huge loss to SC and OBC category as the reserved categories will have to face a much tougher competition for employment than before he said It will become more difficult for the people of Haryana to find jobs who are already facing the highest unemployment in the country Hooda said He said that by reducing the time period to get domicile of the state this government wants to change the demography of Haryana so that the rights of the local people can be curtailed The former chief minister said he was not opposed to people from other states coming to Haryana for business or employment but it becomes the responsibility of the state government to ensure that the interests of the local people can be protected All the states have made a 15-year rule for domicile to protect the rights of the SC and backward class of their state he said Hooda also opposed the recent steep increase in the development charges in areas falling under municipal councils committees and corporations and termed it as an attack on the basic needs of the common man This decision of the government would make it difficult for the common man to build a home for his family he said The government should immediately withdraw this decision Hooda said PTI SUN VSD ANB ANB

Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], February 11 (ANI): Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said that the BJP government is trying to withdraw all the cases registered against the farmers, some cases have been withdrawn after getting the permission of the Central Government.

Chandigarh Jan 24 PTI Opposition Congress and INLD on Monday said incessant rains have damaged crops in Haryana and demanded that the state government compensate the affected farmersSeveral vegetable crops including potato have been completely destroyed Wheat and mustard farmers have also suffered due to this former Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Indian National Lok Dal INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala said in separate statementsTherefore the government should give compensation to the farmers by ordering a special girdawari revenue survey for the loss caused to farmers without any further delay Hooda who is Leader of the Opposition in Haryana assembly saidChautala also made a similar demandCrops of farmers have been severely damaged due to which they are facing financial lossthe government should immediately order a special girdawari and compensate farmers he saidHooda said farmers are facing the wrath of the weather continuously for the last several seasons and they have demanded compensation several times but neither the insurance companies nor the government has compensated them for the lossesIn the last season too more than five-and-a-half-lakh acres of crops were damaged due to excessive rain and waterlogging but till date farmers are waiting for the compensation he saidThe government neither gave compensation nor solved the problem of waterlogging Therefore farmers not only suffered loss of the previous crop but they could not sow this season too Hooda saidIn such a situation the government should announce double compensation for those farmers In addition to this the government should also take immediate action to drain out water from waterlogged areas the former chief minister saidHooda who is currently under home isolation after testing Covid positive a few days ago said he will be among the farmers as soon as he recoversI have been constantly getting complaints from farmers as they are bearing the brunt of the weather besides government apathy and mismanagement he saidEarlier they did not get DAP fertiliser due to government neglect now they are facing shortage of urea and sunflower seeds The government should improve its attitude and stop harassing the farmers he added PTI SUN RHL