New Delhi: BJP youth wing workers led by party's Delhi unit president Vijay Goel on Sunday courted arrest while protesting at the residence of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanding release of Delhi's share of water allegedly held back by the state. Goel and scores of activists of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), including Delhi BJYM chief Gauarav Khari, were taken to Parliament Street police station and were later released.
Earlier, addressing the protesters, Goel said, "The overall water management system has collapsed in Delhi. Not only Delhi has not got its due share from Haryana, the much-delayed Munak Canal whose cost overruns are phenomenal doesn't have single drop of water despite tall claims made by the Chief Minister during the last one year. The fact is that from Munak Canal also, Delhi will only get around 75-80 MGD water. But there will still be shortfall of more than 200 MGD and the government has no plan to fill this gap. The way Congress is trying to project Munak canal as a panacea for Delhi's water crisis is thus misleading."
Goel said that Congress governments in Delhi and Haryana should stop "shadow boxing" at least on sensitive issues like water crisis which affect life of every citizen of Delhi. "The political acrobatics of Congress which is ruling both the states (Delhi and Haryana) on the issue of water cannot escape the eyes of angry public," he said.
The BJP state unit chief also alleged that every
06:53 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: A delegation of MPs and MLAs from Delhi on Saturday met Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and requested him to release water to the national capital from Munak Canal in his state. The Munak canal was constructed by Haryana with financial assistance of around Rs 400 crore given by Delhi government on the condition that the national capital will be supplied 80 MGD water from it. But...
01:57 AM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: Haryana on Friday agreed to release raw water from its quota in Yamuna to Delhi which is reeling under shortage of water due to a breach in the upper Ganga canal in Uttar Pradesh. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda agreed to provide Delhi around 240 cusecs of raw water from its share in Yamuna following a request by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Areas in East and South...
02:25 AM, May 18, 2013
New Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday raised the demand for a separate High Court for the state to strengthen the judicial system. Hooda was addressing a conference of Chief Ministers of states and Chief Justices of the High Courts, held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Sunday. The conference was presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while Chief Justice of India Justice Altamas Kabir...
03:40 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said he will continue efforts to get reservation for Jat community in the Central Government jobs. Speaking at the Akhil Bharatiya Jat Maha Sammelan, Hooda said he along with former Lok Sabha Speaker Balram Jakhar had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi a number of times on the reservation issue and such efforts will continue. ...
12:59 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said he does not think boxer Vijender Singh has any involvement with the drug haul case in Punjab, stressing that law would take its own course. The Chief Minister was asked to comment on the Olympic medallist's name cropping up in connection with the Rs 130 crore heroin haul in Punjab's Zirakpur recently. ...
08:04 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The issue of indiscipline and groupism in party affairs dominated an interaction meeting held by Rahul Gandhi with Congress MPs from Haryana on Tuesday, while some of the members complained against the functioning of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. ...
10:21 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Bahadurgarh in Haryana will become the second town in Haryana to be connected with the national capital through Delhi Metro as the foundation stone for construction of a 12-km corridor was laid on February 2. ...
06:56 PM, Feb 02, 2013
New Delhi: A strong pitch for giving a larger role to Rahul Gandhi was made by two Congress Chief Ministers at the party rally here today which saw the young leader underlining the need to further open up the political system for the youth. Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his Rajasthan counterpart Ashok Gehlot said Gandhi should be given a bigger role at the national level so that...
04:54 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Gurgaon: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday hinted that his government is mulling to buy the operational rights of the Gurgaon toll plaza located on the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway. The Chief Minister, while replying to a question, said though the issue comes under the Centre, he would try his best to resolve the matter on a priority basis. "We will talk with the National Highways Authority of India on...
01:37 AM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: IAC activist Arvind Kejriwal has likened Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's land deals in Rajasthan to convict Rajat Gupta's insider trading in the US. He says both Ashok Gehlot and Bhupinder Hooda will be compelled to give a clean chit to Vadra if they have to survive. CNN-IBN: CNN-IBN broke this story yesterday that Robert Vadra had land deals not just in Haryana but also Rajasthan...
12:09 PM, Oct 27, 2012
Chandigarh: Transferred Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who cancelled the mutation of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's Manesar land, has taken on the Haryana government. Khemka told CNN-IBN that the Haryana government is encroaching on the jurisdiction of the Punjab and Haryana High court by setting up a three-member panel to probe his order. Khemka said that IAS officers have no jurisdiction to probe orders passed by the...
01:29 PM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: There was high drama at the press conference held by anti-corruption crusader-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday as former IAC activists and key supporters of Anna Hazare questioned Kejriwal over his team members and their dealings. Annie Kohli, a supporter of Anna Hazare, confronted Kejriwal in full view of TV cameras and asked him several discomforting questions. "Are you a politician or an activist? What are you doing about...
04:31 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Members of India Against Corruption (IAC) on Sunday protested and clashed with the police outside Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hoodas residence in the capital. The protest was organised in connection with the IAC member Arvind Kejriwal's allegations against Congress president Sonia Gandhis son-in-law Robert Vadra and his alleged illegalities with the collusion of the Haryana government and realty major DLF. At least 7 protestors sustained injuries and...
01:37 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Chandigarh: In an oblique reference to Arvind Kejriwal's charges against his government, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said no matter how much "false propaganda" was being done, the ground reality was still in favour of Congress. Hooda cautioned people against "such forces that have emerged in the country". "Politics of character assassination and conspiracy is being done to weaken the Congress party, as it is the only...
10:19 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Chandigarh: Transferred Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka has been in the spotlight for cancelling the mutation of the DLF-Robert Vadra land deal. But Khemka in the past has also questioned many other land deals in Haryana were he felt land was being misused. Behind the rapid real estate boom in Gurgaon lies a tale of bureaucrats and real estate developers collaborating for windfall profits. In seven villages near sector 58...
08:41 AM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday said some people are playing politics of "character assassination" to "weaken and defame" Congress in the state. According to a statement issued by Haryana government, Hooda also said only Congress can keep the country united. "People very well understand that some elements are playing politics of character assassination to weaken and defame the Congress party. But the fact is that...
10:10 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Ashok Khemka, who was transferred by the Haryana government after he cancelled the mutation of the sale deed between Robert Vadra's company and DLF, said that anyone who feels his order is "unfounded" is free to go to court against it. ...
09:58 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: Behind the rapid real estate boom in Gurgaon, lies a tale of bureaucrats and real estate developers collaborating for windfall profits. In 7 villages near sector 58 to 63 and 65 to 67 of Gurgaon, panchayat land commonly held and meant for roads, schools, hospitals was transferred to 20 private builders in 2008-2009. On paper, it was passed off as legal land consolidation where the developer's land was...
07:30 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda's wife Asha Hooda on Wednesday said her "head hangs in shame" when the state, a frontrunner in many areas, is pointed out for negative things that include adverse sex ratio and recent incidents of crimes against women. Asha Hooda, who is also Vice President of Council for Child Welfare, Haryana, said that when people talk about the state having made rapid progress in...
11:06 PM, Oct 17, 2012
