Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday said farmers will get minimum support price (MSP) for crops, youth will get jobs and employees will get old pension scheme (OPS) when the Congress government will be formed in Haryana.

Addressing a Press conference in Rohtak on Tuesday, Hooda said it is certain that Bharatiya Janata Party-Jannayak Janta Party (BJP-JJP) coalition government will lose in the upcoming elections and Congress will form the government.

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“People are completely fed up with the present government. Haryana, which was number one in per capita income, investment and development till 2014 during the Congress government, has been made number one in unemployment, crime and scams by the present government,” he said.

Hooda said about two lakh posts are lying vacant in government departments. “Instead of filling them, scams are happening continuously in the name of recruitment, jobs are being sold like goods at a grocery store. About 30 papers have been leaked so far,”  the Congress leader said.

“The government is constantly changing the rules to give preference to the people of other states even in the few recruitments that are held in the state. In this series, the government has now decided to give five marks of socio-economic status to the candidates of other states. This will make it more difficult for the local applicants to get jobs,” he said.

Referring to the farmers, Hooda said today the farmers’ mustard is being sold in the market at a rate lower than the MSP as the government is deliberately delaying the purchase. “Due to non-availability of government procurement, farmers had to sell their mustard at Rs 1000 to Rs 1500 below the MSP. Not only mustard, the government is shying away from giving MSP on almost all the crops from bajra and paddy,” he alleged.

“The MSP guarantee law will be implemented after the Congress government is formed. Along with this, the party has decided that after the formation of the government, old age pension of Rs 6000 per month and free electricity up to 300 units per family will be given to the elderly. The scheme to distribute plots of 100 yards each to poor families will start again. The present government reduced the income limit in the creamy layer in backward classes from 8 to 6 lakhs. It will be increased to 10 lakhs so that backward classes can get full benefit of reservation,” the former CM added.

Hooda once again demanded the government to withdraw the e-tendering, accepting the demand of the sarpanches. He said the government wants to paralyze the panchayats through e-tendering and this is why Panch-Sarpanchs have to agitate under compulsion,” he said.