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Haryana
By Our Special Correspondent
CHANDIGARH, MARCH 25 .The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) president and Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, today ridiculed the "road show" of the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and asserted that such "gimmicks'' would not fetch votes for the Congress in the upcoming elections. Mr.Chautala was addressing an election rally in favour of the INLD candidate, Surender Singh Barwala, at Jind. He accused the Congress of adopting double standards and charged that when corruption cases were registered against Congress leaders in Haryana these were termed as politically motivated but when the Punjab Chief Minister,Amarinder Singh, registered cases against the Akali Dal leader, Parkash Singh Badal, these were "justified'' by Congressmen. He also had a dig at those parties (the BJP) which were preaching their love for Hindi and considered themselves as upholders of the Indian culture but were now taking the help of film stars and English slogans to attract voters. He remarked that when the INLD Government introduced English from Class I in the State, the BJP leaders and other opposition parties raised hue and cry stating that Haryana was a Hindi-speaking State. He added that he had visited over 70 countries and observed that the knowledge of English was essential for competing at the national and international level. The BJP leaders in Haryana had described English as the language of the Britishers and pleaded that the people should not be forced to study it. Mr.Chautala asked the audience to pose a question to these leaders as to which culture the "feel good' slogan belonged to.
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