Haryana minister facing sexual harassment allegation should resign: Hooda

Chandigarh (IANS). Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has targeted the state government on Saturday. He said that Minister Sandeep Singh, accused of sexual harassment, should resign on the basis of morality or else the Chief Minister should remove him from the post.

Hooda said that if Sandeep does not resign, then the Chief Minister should ask for his resignation.

Addressing the media in Chandigarh, Hooda said the party has raised the issue in the current assembly session as well. The government has deliberately kept the duration of the session short as it does not want to answer important issues.

It seems that the government is in a hurry. That is why the adjournment motion given by the Congress regarding flood and compensation was converted into a calling attention motion. The Congress has also proposed a discussion on the Nuh violence and law and order in the state, but the speaker sent that too to the government for comments.

The government did not give a clear answer even on the issue of huge discrepancy in the Parivar Pehchan Patra. The government could not explain how the rich are being shown as poor and the poor as rich. There are innumerable flaws in the Government’s Property ID and Family Identity Card, which have not been rectified even after such a long time. Despite this, no legal action was taken against the company that had the contract to execute the project.

On the question of taking out a religious procession again in Mewat, Hooda said that it is everyone’s right to take out a procession. No one should have any objection to the procession, but the government should take precaution in every case considering its seriousness.

Despite knowing everything last time, the government did not take proper steps regarding the security of the procession and did not take cognizance of the provocative statements, which led to the violence.

Hooda said religious processions were taken out even during the Congress regime, but there was never any violence, while such incidents have become common in the BJP government as it is a government of riots.

Hooda said the party was demanding a judicial inquiry into the Nuh violence under the supervision of a sitting High Court judge to find out how the violence took place and who was responsible for it. He said that the government is running away from the investigation.