Hooda tries to woo Brahmins ahead of polls in Haryana next year

Hooda tries to woo Brahmins ahead of polls in Haryana next year

Randeep Hooda participates in the Jan Milan programme at Jind on Sunday. In a bid to woo Brahmins ahead of the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha polls in the State next year, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday promised to appoint a Brahmin Deputy Chief Minister, restore job reservation for the community … Read more

Haryana govt. has failed to compensate farmers for their loss, alleges Hooda 

Haryana govt. has failed to compensate farmers for their loss, alleges Hooda 

Bhupinder Singh Hooda. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition in the Haryana Assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda on April 12 alleged that wheat procurement was moving at a tardy pace across the State, and the ruling BJP-JJP government had failed to adequately compensate farmers for their crop loss due … Read more

Ahead of 2024 Assembly poll in Haryana, Congress promises to restore Old Pension Scheme 

Ahead of 2024 Assembly poll in Haryana, Congress promises to restore Old Pension Scheme 

Former Haryana CM and leader of opposition at state assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda. File | Photo Credit: Akhilesh Kumar Ahead of the next Haryana Assembly elections, due in 2024, the Congress party announced it would restore the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) for government employees if the party formed the next government in the State. Former … Read more

Haryana CM and Leader of Opposition in war of words over jobs through HKRN

Haryana CM and Leader of Opposition in war of words over jobs through HKRN

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal speaks in the House during the Winter Session of the Haryana Legislative Assembly, in Chandigarh, on Dec. 27, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal and the Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday were involved in a war of words … Read more

Government should reconsider Agnipath scheme: Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Government should reconsider Agnipath scheme: Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Chandigarh, Senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday lashed out at the Centre over its “Agnipath” scheme, saying it neither favours the the country nor the youth. He requested the government to reconsider and rationalise it by ensuring permanent jobs to soldiers who complete their four-year term in the armed forces. The Centre on … Read more

Congress calls for law guaranteeing MSP for crops, says want to make farmers ‘debt-free’

Congress calls for law guaranteeing MSP for crops, says want to make farmers ‘debt-free’

The Congress on Saturday called for enacting a law guaranteeing minimum support price (MSP) for crops and said its aim is to ensure that farmers are “debt-free”. Addressing a press conference on the second day of the ongoing ‘Chintan Shivir’, senior Congress leader and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda also said the party … Read more

AICC gives change-seeker Bhupinder Singh Hooda total command of Haryana Congress

AICC gives change-seeker Bhupinder Singh Hooda total command of Haryana Congress

The Congress high command on Wednesday handed over the total command of the Haryana Congress unit to senior leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who interestingly, is also a leading light of the Congress change-seekers. The move is being seen as the high command’s anxiety to humour, if not buy peace, with the entrenched Jat leader who … Read more

Rahul Gandhi talks to Bhupinder Singh Hooda as Congress reaches out to G-23, Ghulam Nabi Azad likely to meet Sonia Gandhi on Friday

Rahul Gandhi talks to Bhupinder Singh Hooda as Congress reaches out to G-23, Ghulam Nabi Azad likely to meet Sonia Gandhi on Friday

G-23 leader Ghulam Nabi Azad is likely to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday, while members of the dissenting group in the Congress Thursday held a flurry of meetings where they insisted they will fight for revamping the party while staying within its fold. Sources in the grouping said the leaders, during the parleys, … Read more

Eye will be gouged out & hand chopped off, threatens Haryana BJP MP after former minister held up

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Attacking the Congress over some of his party leaders being held up in Rohtak, BJP MP Arvind Sharma on Saturday threatened that “eye will be gouged out and hand chopped off” if anybody tries to target former Haryana minister Manish Grover. Sharma’s remark came a day after Grover and some other BJP leaders were held … Read more

Smriti Irani attacks Congress over women legislators pulling Hooda’s tractor

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The BJP on Thursday attacked the Congress over its leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda riding a tractor which women legislators of his party pulled with ropes to protest against the rise in fuel prices, and asked if women in a political organisation be treated as “bonded labourers”. Union minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani said it … Read more