Chandigarh [India], July 19 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday announced a compensation of Rs 1 crore to the family of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Surendra Singh Bishnoi who was mowed down by a truck while probing illegal stone-mining in Nuh and said the culprits will not be spared.

New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): Ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections, Congress MP from Haryana Deepender Singh Hooda on Thursday said there is no threat to the party instead Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) government should be afraid as some of the MLAs supporting them (BJP) have lost faith in the government.

Chandigarh Apr 21 PTI Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala on Thursday held Haryanas BJP-led government responsible for the power crisis in the state saying people are suffering daily power cuts in this summer heat due to the mismanagement by the government The people are facing problems but a 600- megawatt unit in Khedar has been lying closed for the past 19 months and a 660-MW unit in Jhajjar has remained non-functional for the last eight to nine months said Surjewala The state government claims to have an installed power capacity of 12175 MW but why is only 6000 MW of power available in the state Surjewala asked in a statement He further said the government should explain why coal stock for only seven to eight days is left in Yamunanagar and Panipat thermal plants and what is the government doing to restore the supply The senior Congress leader said 65 lakh domestic electricity consumers 657 lakh agriculture consumers and 116 lakh industrial consumers were suffering hours of declared and undeclared electricity cuts despite the state having surplus power The BJP-led government is directly responsible for the power crisis There is no power scarcity in the state but the mismanagement and maladministration on the part of the BJP-JJP government have made people suffer Surjewala a former Haryana Minister said The state government should explain why it was not taking the 1424 MW of electricity from Adani Power at the agreed rate of Rs 294 per unit for the last one year as per the 2008s Power Purchase Agreement PPA between the Adani Power and Haryana Government he demanded to know Despite the long-term PPA for cheaper power why is the Haryana government burdening people by buying electricity at five to six times higher rates What is the reason for this he asked He said it is a hard fact that several power plants were set up in Yamunanagar Jharli and Khedar during the Congress tenure but the present state government permanently shut down four functional power plants and is keeping two more shut for one or the other reason which is leading to the present power crisis A few days ago Haryanas Power Minister Ranjit Singh Chautala had said there was no shortage of power in Haryana and the supply of electricity will be ensured even if the government has to purchase it at Rs 12 per unit from outside the state Chautala had also said the state has sufficient stock of coal and the power production will not be interrupted at any thermal plant due to its shortage For over a week the opposition parties however have been slamming the state government alleging that the power crisis in the state is getting worse The state government is proving to be a failure on every front whose repercussions people of the state have to bear Haryana Congress president Kumari Selja had tweeted earlier The Haryana unit of the Aam Aadmi Party had also targeted the government saying that the people of the state were reeling under power cuts in this intense summer heat PTI SUN VSD RAX RAX

Chandigarh Apr 19 PTI The BJP-JJP government in Haryana is running away from the panchayat polls alleged Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala as he accused the ruling alliance of suppressing democratic rights of villagers He alleged that the BJP-JJP government has been venomously treating rural areas due to which more than 6200 panchayats of the state are lying defunct and unrepresented for the past 14 months The state government is running away from the panchayat elections for 14 months now to keep rights of the panchayats with bureaucrats while suppressing democratic rights of villagers he alleged In a statement here the senior Congress leader said only a few officers and employees are exercising powers of panchayats at the behest of BJP-JJP leaders Due to it rampant corruption is prevailing in development works he said Half of the posts of block development panchayat officers and about 70 per cent posts of gram sachiv are lying vacant in the state in the absence of which villagers have to visit remote villages and nearby towns to meet the administrators even for their day-to-day issues he said He said apart from local issues panchayat representatives had powers for attestation of various documents but in the absence of panchayats common people are forced to approach other officials who are mostly not available in their villages Surjewala said according to Article 243E of the Indian Constitution the government is bound to conduct panchayat elections on time The BJP-JJP government has violated the constitutional provisions by postponing the panchayat elections by 14 months he claimed PTI SUN VSD RDK

Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], April 6 (ANI): Former Haryana Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on Wednesday questioned the policies of the BJP-JJP government in the state on the increasing rates of petrol and diesel and said that the fuel was the cheapest during the Congress rule in the state which is now "more expensive as compared to neighbouring states".

Chandigarh Mar 24 PTI Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday announced setting up of a high-powered committee to deal with corruption cases more effectively Speaking to reporters here after chairing a meeting of deputy commissioners and superintendents of police from across the state the chief minister said the committee will meet every month to redress complaints of corruption at the earliestThe chief minister told the officials to deal with cases of corruption with an iron hand and said he would also be monitoring things closely sources saidThe BJP-JJP government has come under attack from the opposition which has alleged rampant corruption in various spheres of the governmentIn the recently held budget session of Haryana assembly the opposition had claimed that several scams have taken place during the BJP-led government in the stateKhattar said the committee will be headed by the Haryana chief secretary It will include the financial commissioner revenue additional chief secretary home director general of police additional director general of police CID and director of State Vigilance Bureau as its members The chief minister also announced the expansion of State Vigilance at the division levelAccording to an official statement the meeting mainly discussed the focus points of the recently presented state budget Along with this monitoring of corruption was also discussed it saidCorruption has penetrated deeply today Previous governments did not expose it and brushed it under the carpet But whenever any wrongdoing comes to our notice we take action The main aim of the government is to create an atmosphere of fear in the minds of the corrupt For this the government is also laying stress on digitalisation he saidThe chief minister said to check corruption while decentralizing the Haryana State Vigilance Bureau it has been decided to set up six independent units at the divisional levelProsecution sanction of these units at the divisional level will be with the divisional commissioner The main task of these units will be to investigate corruption complaints received against group B C and D category government employees involving an amount of up to Rs 1 croreThe State Vigilance Bureau will continue to investigate the complaints of group A category employees involving an amount of Rs 1 crore or moreMeanwhile Khattar said it has also been decided to form a Human Resource Department for government employeesThe department will keep records related to employees their transfers cases against them and pension-related matters after retirementThis department will remain with the chief minister PTI SUN VSD RHL

Chandigarh Oct 27 PTI Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Wednesday in an open letter accused the BJP-JJP government in Haryana of misgovernance and lawlessness saying the ruling combine has ruined the state In the letter addressed to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar Surjewala said his government has forced the youth farmers and labourers to come on the road while putting all sections of society in trouble He also criticised the CM over law and order saying violence erupted under his rule thrice in the state You and your disciples did a lot of politics and caste polarisation on the Jat violence of 2016 but when it came to answer you stood in the Assembly and said you were misled by my own people he said In the past seven years your incompetent government has put a peace loving state like Haryana amid the worst states of the country in terms of crime Surjewala alleged accusing the CM of ruining the state Citing a report of the National Crime Records Bureau Surjewala said in 2020 192 lakh criminal cases were registered in the state A total of 1373 rape cases were registered he added He also accused the government of insulting farmers by calling them traitors and foreign agents Various tricks are being used to malign farmers movement he said Khattar sahib you made the state the main centre of unemployment in the country in these seven years he said criticising the CM Meanwhile senior Congress leader Bhupendra Singh Hooda in a separate statement put up seven questions to the state government He asked how many posts are lying vacant in government departments and why the government not filling them The government should tell how many people lost their lives during the coronavirus period without oxygen medicine hospital beds and treatment Why has the government not taken any steps to identify such people Why is there such a big difference between the official Covid death toll and the number of deaths during the period Hooda asked Why were big projects like a rail coach factory and the Meham airport which were approved during the Congress government moved to other states he asked He also asked what steps the government has taken to find a positive solution to the farmers stir against central laws Instead of raising demands of farmers before the Centre why did the state government try to crush the movement he questioned PTI VSD RDK RDK

Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], October 27 (ANI): Former Chief Minister of Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda slammed the BJP- led government in the state and said that the seven-year tenure of their government has been full of failures.

Chandigarh Aug 30 PTI Senior Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Monday accused the Manohar Lal Khattarled government in Haryana of writing the story of ruin of a shining state with its ill-directed and anti-people policiesResponding to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattars claims of achievements on the completion of 2500 days of his government the Congress general secretary alleged that the BJP-JJP enjoyed power but people were made to bleed on the streetsSimilarly while the youth were preparing hard in colleges and coaching institutes for the job recruitment tests the examination papers for the same were shamelessly sold publicly he further allegedOn the completion of 2500 days of the BJP-JJP regime Khattar claimed that tightening the noose around corruption and providing jobs only on the basis of merit are the two biggest achievements of his governmentSlamming the Khattar government over several issues including paper leaks unemployment and debt burden Surjewala said the BJP-JJP leaders enjoyed the fruits of power but the state was pushed for deep division on caste linesIn a jibe at the state government over assault on farmers in Karnal he said the lath jeevi government is clinging to power with the help of JJPs crutches while people suffered on multiple counts PTI CHS VSD NSD NSD

Chandigarh Aug 30 PTI Tightening the noose around corruption and providing jobs only on the basis of merit are the two biggest achievements of his government Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said here on Monday on the completion of 2500 days of the BJP-JJP regimeHe said the changes brought in the system of governance have not only eradicated corruption exploitation of the poor and non-meritorious selection but have also increased the trust and belief of the common man in the government manifoldTightening the noose around corruption and providing jobs only on the basis of merit can be termed as our two biggest achievements Khattar said at a press conference hereTaking a jibe at the Congress he said on October 26 2014 when the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP came to power in Haryana years of corruption exploitation of the poor and dynastic politics had pushed the state into a vulnerable situationGovernment property was being looted leaving people at the receiving end he addedWe always advise the Opposition to play a positive role but since they do not have any logical and fundamental issues to raise they do nothing more than creating doubts in the minds of people by spreading rumoursI would like to warn them that their future is dark people are going to choose us for the next five years too as gone are the days when they used to live in hallucinations the chief minister saidTalking about the recent constable recruitment examination paper leak case he said 28 people have so far been arrestedKhattar said the government has also enacted a law to stop cheatingWe have complete trust in our state investigation agency Our police have reached the roots of this case Any case is transferred to the CBI only when a state investigation agency reaches a dead-end or fails to carry out the required probe he said while responding to a question regarding transferring the paper leak case to the central agencyResponding to another question on the Oppositions allegations regarding the state governments debt liability Khattar said the knowledge of the Congress about the debt figures is poor and therefore it always spreads liesHe said the Congress left the state with a debt liability of Rs 97000 croreKhattar said his government revolutionised the system by introducing digital reforms to bring transparency in each of its wingResponding to another question on the regularisation of illegal colonies the chief minister said for regularising such colonies located within the limits of the urban local bodies a bill has been passed and around 1200 colonies that fulfil the criteria have registered themselves and would be regularised PTI VSD RC