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`Banish Chautala-save Haryana' is Surjewala's agenda

By Our Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, DEC.10. The newly- appointed working president of the Haryana unit of the Congress, Randeep Singh Surjewala, asserted here today that the party's "priority" and "agenda" would be to rid the State of the "reins of dictatorial subjugation'' of the Indian National Lok Dal-led Government and restore "rule of democracy" in the State.

Addressing his maiden press conference after formally taking over as the working president, he announced that the party's slogan was "Banish Chautala -- Save Haryana.'

Replying to questions, he said that all the so-called "faction'' leaders in the party unit were extending all cooperation to him with the sole mission of ensuring that the party regained power in Haryana in the ensuing Vidhan Sabha polls. He asserted that the issue of Chief Ministership was totally irrelevant today. Party leaders should concentrate on winning the elections like any worker and leave the matter of selection of Chief Minister to the party supremo, Sonia Gandhi. While asserting that nobody would be projected as the Chief Minister, he clarified that he was not an aspirant for the post. He made it clear that he would contest from his traditional Narwana constituency if the high command asked him to do so.

While thanking Ms. Gandhi and the AICC general secretary, Janardan Dwivedi, for reposing faith and bestowing an onerous responsibility on him in these challenging times, he said that new vistas of opportunity and leadership role had been bestowed by the Congress leadership on the young in Haryana.

Charging that Haryana had been plagued by four Cs ---Corruption, Criminality, Complete Anarchy and Crass Nepotism -- under the regime of Om Prakash Chautala, he said that all sections -- farmers, youth, women, traders, scheduled castes, backward classes - had been "victims of Chautala's tyranny'' over the last six years. "We are committed to erase this tyranny, dictatorship and State sponsored repression off the face of Haryana's book of democracy,''he added.

Mr.Surjewala further alleged that the State's exchequer had been looted with impunity by the rulers and corruption was rampant everywhere. "We are committed that each act of corruption would be clocked by the Congress party and the guilty brought to book irrespective of their place or position,'' he asserted.

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