Jairam Ramesh said Haryana police tried to stop people from taking part in the pilgrimage. (document)
Noah, Haryana:
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh claimed on Thursday that Haryana police were trying to stop people from participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, claiming that there was no electricity in the village where the participants had rested the previous day.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who also spoke at the press conference alongside Mr Ramesh, warned government employees not to indulge in “politically motivated behaviour”.
The Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed its second day in Haryana on Thursday from Malab village in the district. The yatra entered Haryana from Rajasthan on Wednesday.
Mr Ramesh, the congress secretary in charge of communications, said he had received information that Haryana police tried to stop people from taking part in the pilgrimage on Thursday morning.
Barricades had been set up in many places and people were told they were not authorized to take part in the pilgrimage, he said.
Mr. Ramesh, who accompanied Rahul Gandhi, further claimed that the village of Bhadas in Nuh, where the pilgrims were resting, had no electricity.
Mr Ramesh said he was told there was no power all day on Wednesday, when there was no power outage the day before.
“It seems to me like vendetta politics. ‘BJP Sarkar Haryana mein bokhlai hui hai’. (The BJP government in Haryana is nervous),” Mr Ramesh said.
He said the next phase of the pilgrimage in Haryana state next month will pass through Panipat, Kurushettra, Ambala, etc., and then the BJP government will look for new ways to propose it. question.
“What happened yesterday was wrong. If you want to indulge in vendetta, do it to Congress. Why are you targeting the villagers by cutting off the electricity just because they welcome the yatra,” he asked.
Senior Congress leaders have claimed that the BJP-ruled states of Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh are trying to derail the Bharat Jodo Yatra as it passes through those states.
He accused the BJP-ruled country of spreading false propaganda against the pilgrimage.
Mr Hooda took over BJP-JJP govt on blackout issue and said if govt cuts power because of yatra then it will have to cut power in Haryana as whole state is now connected to it.
He further said that it is the duty of the police to maintain law and order, but it cannot stop anyone.
In his warning to them, he said governments would come and go if police officers indulged in politically motivated behavior.
He also asked staff not to make any politically motivated decisions because it “would be unacceptable”.
Mr Hooda, the opposition leader in Haryana, called the BJP-JJP regime a bad government, like bad assets for banks, as he targeted the Manohar Lal Khattar government on unemployment.
He claimed 182,000 government jobs were vacant.
He further stated that the BJP-JJP government has nothing to say.
(Aside from the title, this story is unedited by NDTV staff and published via a syndicated feed.)
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