Author: Tribune News Service
Publication: The Tribune
Date: April 28, 2006
URL: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060428/haryana.htm#1
Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party, chief Ganeshi
Lal today accused Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of pandering the Muslim
community in the Mewat district at the cost of other communities.
Addressing a press conference here, he said
by creating a separate district for Muslims the government had helped Pakistan's
ISI to establish a base there for creating disturbances in Haryana.
He said more than 70 per cent of the households
there had acquired illicit firearms and Hindu families were migrating to other
areas considered safer for them. Warning that unless immediate action was
taken, Haryana would become another Bihar, he said his party would call on
the Haryana Governor to apprise him of the situation.
The BJP leader said the Butana Canal project
initiated by the Hooda government was a ticklish issue taken up without proper
appraisal and homework. He said the farmers were not taken into confidence
and the related inter-state issues were not addressed by the government.
He also accused the UPA government at the
Centre of creating a 1947-like situation in the country by appeasing the Muslims.
He said the violent protests in India in the aftermath of the cartoon controversy
in Denmark were indicative of the changing face of the community in the country.
Mr Ganeshi Lal said it appeared the country
was "without a Prime Minister" since the PMO and the ministers were
working at cross-purposes. Citing an instance, he said while the Prime Minister
had declared that wheat imports were unnecessary, Agriculture Minister Sharad
Pawar had sanctioned huge imports of wheat.
Likewise, he said Union Ministers, Mr Kapil
Sibal and Mr Kamalnath, had publicly opposed Mr Arjun Singh's plans for further
reservations in premier educational institutions. He said such issues had
made the Manmohan Singh government "visionless".
