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The training programme aims to strengthen the party organisation in Haryana and Uttarakhand.
Chandigarh: Haryana Leader of the Opposition and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday said senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will visit Kurukshetra on January 21 to address district presidents of the party from Haryana and Uttarakhand.
The visit is part of a Congress training programme being organised to strengthen the party’s organisational structure in the two states. As many as 33 district presidents from Haryana and 27 from Uttarakhand are participating in the sessions, which are scheduled from January 13 to 22.
Addressing Haryana district presidents during the programme, Hooda said the party must take key public issues forcefully to the people, including unemployment, organised crime, drug abuse, migration, alleged neglect of farmers, and what he described as the continued marginalisation of poor and SC–OBC communities. He accused the BJP-led state government of failing to deliver on its promises and neglecting overall development in Haryana.
“In 11 years of BJP rule, not a single new medical college, major industry, university, railway line, metro line, or IIT has been established in the state, nor has the government succeeded in attracting significant investment,” Hooda alleged. He claimed that while development had stagnated, Haryana’s debt had ballooned sharply—from around ₹60,000 crore between 1966 and 2014 to over ₹5 lakh crore in just 11 years.
Referring to the BJP’s promise of doubling farmers’ income by 2022, Hooda said farmers’ earnings had not increased, but their input costs had risen. He also accused the government of betraying women under the Ladli Lakshmi Yojana. “Before elections, the BJP promised ₹2,100 per month to all women, but now the scheme is limited to a small section,” he said.
Raising concerns over law and order, the Congress leader alleged that criminal networks were flourishing unchecked in the state, claiming that more than 80 gangs were currently active, creating a sense of insecurity among citizens.
The Congress leadership sees the Kurukshetra training camp and Rahul Gandhi’s address as a key step in energising the party’s grassroots leadership ahead of upcoming political challenges in both Haryana and Uttarakhand.
