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Adampur voters let down, alleges INLD

CHANDIGARH: Senior Indian National Lok Dal leader and former Haryana Finance Minister Sampat Singh alleged on Thursday that the Congress had let down the voters of Adampur by first “supplying them electric poles and then starting the process of registration of criminal cases of theft against them”.

Talking to the media, he alleged that the State Government had supplied over 6,000 electric poles to villages in Adampur, which recently went to polls and saw the re-election of former Chief Minister and Haryana Janhit Congress leader Bhajan Lal, on the “promise that they would be provided electricity connections soon”.

But now the Government was in the process of registering FIRs for theft of electric poles against all those farmers, he alleged. Mr. Sampat Singh had contested the Adampur by-election on INLD ticket and lost.

He further disclosed that a company which was assigned the contract of segregation of rural and agriculture feeders in the area had alleged that 1,093 electric poles belonging to the company worth Rs.21.86 lakhs had been stolen from Balsamand, Matarshyam, Ladvi, Aryanagar, Kalirawan, Modakhera, Kirmara and Chikanwaas villages. And now Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam had written to the police to register an FIR against the farmers.

He said that similarly over 900 poles of a Hyderabad-based construction company and 4,000 poles of the Nigam had been reportedly supplied in the constituency without actually providing power connections.

Accusing the Congress of betraying the voters, he alleged that the conduct of the ruling party amounted to violation of the People’s Representation Act. He asserted that the INLD would not allow the authorities to lift poles from the farmers and it would not “tolerate” registration of cases against innocent farmers.

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