Haryana verdict shows true place to many

Haryana verdict bursts the illusion bubble In Lok Sabha election number of seats of Bharatiya Janata Party decreased compared to 2019.Many analysts and journalists were extremely happy with this result. The number of people predicting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma is over, alliance partners of National Democratic Alliance at the Center will not stay with BJP for long, the Modi government will not last for long, has increased enormously.

Many people started daydreaming that after Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections, Modi government would collapse and Rahul Gandhi would become the Prime Minister.

Out of these Haryana Assembly election result was announced recently. This result burst the bubble of many. People who were claiming that BJP will be finished in Haryana and Congress will get thumping majority have fell flat on their face after Haryana verdict.

These analysts, journalists and intellectuals were confident that the agitation by various farmers’ organizations in Punjab and Haryana and agitation by women wrestlers in Haryana against Modi government has created a wave against Bhartiya Janata Party and by taking its advantage congress will come to power with huge majority.

These analysts, journalists were giving instances of the Lok Sabha election in Haryana. Bhartiya Janata Party, which won all the 10 seats of Lok Sabha in Haryana in 2014, 2019, could win only 5 seats this time.

After Lok Sabha results, Haryana’s woman wrestler Vinesh Phogat could not get the Olympic medical due to a technical reason of weight gain.

Some people had spread propaganda that Vinesh lost this medal because of central government. Vinesh herself had alleged that she lost her medal because of the Modi government only.

It was obvious that Indian people had a sympathy for Vinesh, who lost her medal. It was also natural that this sympathy would be much more in Haryana.

In this background Vinesh Phogat joined the Congress and got the Congress candidature as well. Vinesh comes from the same Jat community, leaders of which had tried to corner the Modi government through farmers’ agitation.

Wrestlers like Sakshi Malik, Bajrang Punia actively supported Vinesh’s agitation. In this background, these analysts predicted that the Jat Community which constitutes more than 25 percent of the population in Haryana, will come together to vote against BJP and single-handedly overturn the BJP’s power.

These predictions were further backed by exit polls. The counting began with the postal votes. As soon as the news of Congress leading in about 65 seats appeared on the news channels, these analysts and thinkers were overjoyed.

After the counting of postal votes, the actual vote counting started and when the picture started getting clear that Bhartiya Janata party was in the lead and lead was not going to decrease, these analysts and Congress supporters who were flying high started coming down.

After their crash landing, blame game on government machinery and EVMs began as usual. The congress was relying on the Jat community for the victory, but in reality Bhartiya Janata Party won almost the same number of seats in the area where Jat community was influential.

Congress and its supporters spread the false narrative during Lok Sabha election that constitution will be changed and reservation will be abolished, but the voters of Haryana through the ballot box, have made it clear to them that the warranty of this false propaganda is now over.

The people of Haryana have unequivocally shown their preference for the good governance provided by the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the last 10 years while giving a tight slap to the lies of the Congress. 9 year tenure of Manoharlal Khattar and 1 year tenure of Nayab Singh Saini followed by that was dominated by many welfare schemes.Opposition, journalists could not make a single allegation of corruption, mismanagement against BJP government in the last 10 years.

After comparing the experience of corruption during Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s 10 year tenure as Chief Minister to BJP’s clean government in the last 10 years, common voters have elected BJP government for the third consecutive term.

The BJP has increased the compensation to farmers for crop losses due to natural calamities to Rs 15,000 per acre. Till 2013 the compensation was Rs 6 thousand per acre.

In the last 9 years, the farmers of Haryana have received compensation of 11 thousand crores from the state government in their bank accounts.

Few farmers’ organization in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana have started agitation for minimum support price for agricultural produce. For the same demand the activists of these organizations blocked the national highway on Delhi border.

Now these protestors have been protesting on the Shambhu border of Haryana-Punjab for several months. The BJP government in Haryana decided to purchase 24 crops at minimum support price (MSP).

Not a single leader of the protesting farmers’ organizations showed the courtesy of congratulating the BJP government on this.

Not a single leader of the protesting farmers’ organizations has dared to ask that if Haryana government can purchase 24 crops at MSP, then why can’t Punjab government do the same? Political analysts who claim that farmers are upset with the BJP government must not have realized the significance of the Nayab Singh Saini government’s decision to purchase 24 crops at MSP.

One could not get a government job without paying bribe during the tenure of Hooda government. In the last 10 years, the recruitment of 1.10 lakh employees of the Haryana government was done in a transparent manner without paying a single penny through the ‘Mission Merit’ campaign.

Thousands of youth from deprived, exploited community have got government jobs. BJP government has distributed 5.50 lakh tablets to students in government schools.

Therefore, the dream of e-learning for ordinary students has come true. The BJP government also took decisions like increasing the limit of creamy layer for the OBC community to 8 lakhs, increasing the OBC reservation limit in Municipal Corporations and Panchayats.

Voters who have benefited from such public welfare schemes have given the power to BJP for the third consecutive term by rejecting the false propaganda of Congress. In the Lok Sabha elections, the number of seats of Congress has increased from 52 to 99 seats.

Under the illusion that the performance of Congress improved only because of Rahul Gandhi’s leadership, many anti-BJP journalists started worshiping Rahul Baba. Haryana’s voters have destroyed Rahul Baba’s fake _’jalebi factory’_ in a single swoop.

 

(Article Pre-Published in Times of India Online – 14 October 2024)

Keshav Upadhye, Chief Spokesperson