Claiming the Congress as a “dishonest party,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked voters in Haryana to review the grand old party’s poll promises ahead of assembly elections in neighboring Haryana, making a case for his party, the BJP.
“See what they have done in the neighborhood in Himachal. During polls there, you cannot even imagine all the lies they spoke, and after coming to power, they are escaping from their promises,” PM Modi said at a Jan Ashirwad rally in Hisar City.
“People are now telling Congress ‘Kya hua tera vada (What happened to your promise).” Congress is asking people ‘tum kaun (who are you)”, said the Prime Minister during his third poll rally in the state.
“Delhi’s royal family trapped the people of Himachal in their lies. Today, they don’t have a budget to pay salaries and DA to employees in Himachal, ” the Prime Minister said, attacking the Congress.
Two months ago, during the state Assembly session, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu admitted that the state was facing financial strain.
He said the salaries of the ministers, CPS, and MLAs were being withheld for two months. Later, he clarified that the state was not in a financial mess.
Earlier this month, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said in the state Assembly that the delay was part of the government’s effort to enforce fiscal prudence and financial discipline.
He further promised that salaries would be paid on the 1st of each month from the next cycle.
At the manifesto launch in Delhi today, Rahul Gandhi said that the Congress’ “incoming government” in Haryana will end “the decade of pain,” and the party has resolved to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of the people of the state.
It claims that Congress has promised farmers a commission for farmers’ welfare, ₹ 2 crores to the families of soldiers killed in action, labor-intensive units to generate employment, and reconstitution of the Haryana Minority Commission.
The Prime Minister accused the Congress of lying about the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops and said the BJP government in the state was procuring 24 crops at the minimum support price.
