BJP using money, muscle power to get majority in Hry, says Cong
NEWDELHI: Declaring that the people of Haryana have rejected the BJP, the Congress on Friday accused the saffron party of using allurements of money and power to get a majority and said a government formed through such means would be “illegitimate”.
A day after results threw up a hung assembly in Haryana, the scene of action shifted to Delhi with Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar and his Congress rival Bhupinder Singh Hooda in the city to strategise on formation of government.
Lashing out at the BJP for taking Haryana Lokhit Party leader Gopal Kanda’s support, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told reporters, “I think you should look at the statements made by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah at the time when Gopal Kanda was a minister in the (Congress) government in Haryana when we forced him to resign after registration of a case and also removed him from ministership.”
“What was the stance of the BJP then and what sort of doublespeak is the BJP doing today,” he said, accusing the saffron party of displaying “hunger for power”. The Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) has been decisively rejected and those who said they will get a 75-seat mandate have not even touched the majority mark, Surjewala said.
“They (the BJP) have no right to form a government. Defections are coming to play with allurements of money and power and of positions in government being the sole criteria for forming a government in Haryana,” he alleged.
Asked about the narrow margins of defeat of some Congress candidates and recount at some seats in Haryana, Surjewala said, “We all knew how money and muscle power and the ruling dispensation used the machinery to help some candidates and the medium of recounting was used to defeat four-five Congress candidates.”
On whether the Congress was making efforts to form the government, Surjewala said Haryana unit chief Kumari Selja and Hooda would take a call.