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Hooda seeks support for making Haryana No. One state

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Wednesday that his dream of making Haryana the country’s No. One State can only be realised with active support and cooperation of all sections of society.

Addressing a meeting in Karnal, he asserted that his regime had during the past three years taken many constructive steps to step up the pace of development.

Talking about Indri which faces a State Assembly by-election on May 22, Mr. Hooda said that the constituency had “not progressed as much as it could have in the last three years as the then elected MLA (Rakesh Kamboj of the Congress) had paid little attention for its development”.

The by-election was necessitated after Mr. Kamboj was recently disqualified as a MLA on joining the newly-floated Haryana Janhit Congress.

Striking a political note, Mr. Hooda said that till the time Indri does not have an elected MLA, the people should consider him as the MLA.

Addressing a press conference in Ambala during the day, Mr. Hooda asserted that the Adampur constituency, which also faces a by-election on May 22, was never the fiefdom of former Chief Minister and Haryana Janhit Congress candidate Bhajan Lal but a “citadel” of the Congress.

He asserted that the Congress would win the Adampur, Gohana and Indri by-elections easily and effortlessly as the people were impressed with the overall development going on in the State.

He said the Congress nominees were getting full public support and he himself would be present at the time of filing of nomination papers by Ranjit Singh in Admapur.

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