Chandigarh, Nov 14 (PTI) BJP MLAs on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the opposition Congress in the Haryana Assembly, recalling how corruption and favoritism flourished in jobs when they were in power. Merit and transparency are the only criteria governing governance. .

Participating in the debate on the governor’s address in the assembly on the second day of the ongoing winter session, Sohna MLA Tejpal Tanwar said that the state has seen all-round progress in the last ten years under the BJP-led government.

Pointing to the Congress benches, Tanwar said that when we delivered, the people gave us the mandate for the third time in a row.

He said that the jobs were given on merit and many schemes were brought for the welfare of different sections of the society.

BJP’s Rewari MLA Laxman Singh Yadav reminded the Congress that there was a time when the opposition party was in power and “people had to sell their land to get jobs and then the middlemen would exploit them. were”.

“But our government brought transparency and we gave 1.70 lakh jobs during the last ten years… When Congress was in power, there was regional bias in development while favoritism, corruption prevailed in giving jobs, but our government did without any ‘Pay and slip’ and merit has been the sole criteria for hiring, has brought equality and transparency,” Yadav said.

During the debate during the governor’s address, there was also a verbal exchange between members of the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress on certain issues.

“BJP has also used money power in the elections. People have raised questions on EVMs,” Congress MLA from Rohtak BB Batra said while participating in the debate on the Governor’s address. Haryana minister Arvind Sharma intervened and said that Congress has always had a habit of blaming EVMs whenever it loses elections.

Batra said, “There are 120 countries where EVMs are not used. Why are elections not conducted using ballot paper in the country?” The Congress leader said the new data showed that 70 percent of the state’s population falls below the poverty line (BPL).

He said that seventy percent of the population is below the poverty line, we have to consider it.

Batra said that it is ironic that while the per capita income is more than Rs 3.25 lakh, 70 percent of the population is below the poverty line.

He said that there are two things, one is to remove poverty and the other is to provide food to the hungry.

The Congress leader claimed that the government was not working to eradicate poverty but was only focusing on meeting the needs of the hungry.

In his address to the newly elected MLAs of Haryana on the opening day of the session on Wednesday, senior Congress member Raghuveer Singh Kadian pointed to Governor Bandaru Dattatreya and said that the government should not get its rightful share of water from Ravi and Beas rivers. is committed to and for its completion Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal.

Kadian said Haryana should get its share of SYL water at the earliest and urged the chief minister to take an all-party delegation to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the SYL issue.

He said that the government is saying that there is no shortage of DAP fertilizer, but the reality is that there is a shortage.

Regarding law and order, Qadian said that ransom is being demanded from traders and crimes are increasing.

Congress MLA Nirmal Singh said the government should disclose how many of the total government jobs given in the last ten years have been given to people from outside the state.

BJP’s Bhiwani MLA Ghanshyam Saraf alleged that his constituency was neglected during the Congress regime, but saw progress during the Saffron Party-led government.

Intervening on an issue raised by Congress member Muhammad Ilyas, MLA from Panhana in Noh district, Haryana Minister Rao Narbir Singh said that the Mewat region has seen progress under BJP rule.

The minister said the Congress should tell how much funding was given to Mewat when she was in power.

BJP MLA from Mahendragarh Kanwar Singh said that his party has come to power for the third time in a row based on the government’s work.

Govt gave jobs to youth purely on merit… Govt is buying every grain of farmers and depositing money in their bank accounts.

BJP MLA from Rai Sonepat district Krishna Gehlawat said that the government has worked for various sections including the poor, farmers and women during the last ten years.

“In the last ten years, 1.70 lakh youth have got jobs on merit,” he said.

BJP MLA from Safidon, Ram Kumar Gautam, said that he had said before the assembly elections in Haryana that “the fight is between the BJP and Hooda’s party and not between the Congress”.

“When we used to go to villages and towns and ask people how much development work was done during the Congress regime, they would say that all the development took place during the BJP regime,” Gautam said.

“After the election results came out, Congress once again blamed EVMs. Ten years ago, no one could have imagined that people would get jobs on merit. Development was concentrated in Rohtak region. .. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has raised the profile of the country around the world,” he said.

BJP’s Kalka MLA, Shakti Rani Sharma, and another party legislator from Pataudi in Gurugram district, Bimala Chaudhary, said that many youths from ordinary backgrounds had merited during the BJP rule. Got jobs based on PTI SUN AS AS