Cong slams Khattar govt for just focusing on Gita and ‘gau’
This government is of the Gita and the gau (cow). They do not have any concern with issues of the public. We need facilities for the public and welfare of all. S RATHORE, Ballabhgarh MLA
The yatra has been launched from the land of Braj. Lord Krishna had asked Arjuna to fight the war for righteous cause and such wars are to be fought repeatedly. KULDEEP SHARMA, Congress MLA from Ganaur
HODAL(PALWAL): Congress leaders at the Jan Kranti Yatra took a dig at the BJP government for being a government of the Gita and the gau (cow) and of neglecting governance, but in an irony that was hard to miss, these leaders themselves referred to the scripture in their speeches.
In fact, they (the Congress leaders) equated Sunday’s Palwal rally with the Kurukshetra war and appealed to the public to support Hooda in this war.
Congress MLAs — Uday Bhan from Hodal; Karan Singh Dalal from Palwal, and Sharda Rathore from Ballabhgarh — criticised the BJP government for focusing more on the Gita and the cow than on issues that concerned the public. In 2017, the Haryana government had started an International Gita Mahotsav. Its move to purchase 10 copies of the scripture for ₹3.8 lakh had drawn criticism. “This government is of the Gita and the gau. They do not have any concern with issues of the public,” said Rathore.
Uday Bhan added that the Khattar government had become a government of the Gita only and there had been no development and no employment creation during this regime. In his speech, the same leader referred to Palwal as
the land of the Gita and the Braj.
Taking the dissonance a step further, Hooda was even presented with a portrait of Krishna and a memento of Arjuna riding a rath with Lord Krishna.
“The yatra has been launched from the land of Braj. Lord Krishna had asked Arjuna to fight the war for righteous cause and such wars are to be fought repeatedly,” said Kuldeep Sharma, Congress MLA from Ganaur. Referring to the state government as a ‘Khattara government’, Dalal said it had divided communities in the name of religion and the cow.