Now Yadav Vs JATS in NCR
We want next CM from Gurgaon, assert Yadavs
The
Samman rally organized by the district
Congress unit to felicitate the newly elected mayor and his deputies on Sunday exposed the divide in the state Congress.
While the event was attended by local MP Rao Indrajit Singh and Rewari MLA Ajay Singh Yadav - both known as arch-rivals of the chief minister - none of the Congress MLAs from the district showed up.
However, to the relief of two top Yadav leaders from the southern Haryana, All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary and party in-charge in the state B K Hariprasad was present during the event. He was accompained by party MP Tara Chand Bhagora.
With over 10,000 people turning up for the rally, Indrajit Singh did not leave any opportunity to highlight how the development of Gurgaon is overlooked by the state government.
"The city which has been named as
Cyber City and Millennium City does not have a single university whereas other cities like Hisar, Sirsa and Sonipat have several universities. Gurgaon generates over 50% of the state's revenue, but the roads are in a shambles," said the local MP.
State power and forest minister Ajay Singh Yadav also supported the MP's demands including the need to set up a university in Gurgaon. He said that the electricity discoms should supply more power to those areas which are generating more revenue.
"I have stressed this since I became the power minister," he added. Playing to the galleries, Yadav also said that the major portion of the revenue collected from Gurgaon should come to the district in general and the city in particular for infrastructure development.
He said that the time has come when the next chief minister should be from Gurgaon. Though AICC secretary Hariprasad was silent on all these issues, he supported Indrajit's demand of establishing a development authority for Gurgaon.
Congress workers who attended the rally also spoke loudly in support of the local MP. "Successive chief ministers have allowed two different builders to come up in Gurgaon - one is government builder, HUDA, and other is private builders - who have been collecting external development charges (EDC) and internal development charges (IDC). But the infrastructure is in a mess," said a local leader.
Some of the local leaders also raised the issue of regularization of unauthorized colonies. Criticizing the demolition drive around the IAF ammunition depot, locals alleged that the government was showing partiality towards HUDA sectors and Maruti, which fall within the 900-metre radius of the ammunition depot. On the other hand, members of Youth Congress demanded a 'world-class' university in Gurgaon.[/h]
Rally brings Indrajit Singh and Rewari MLA on same platform
GURGAON: Gurgaon MP Rao Indrajit Singh and Rewari
MLA Ajay Singh Yadav came together on one platform on Sunday and spoke in the same voice, giving Chandigarh the jitters.
The alliance of prominent Yadav leaders from Souther Haryana is being seen as a consolidation against chief minister
Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
While it was said that the event was organised only to felicitate the newly elected Gurgaon mayor and his deputies, the two leaders from Ahirwal region managed to pull over 10,000 Congressmen.
Political observers see this as a show of strength by the two Yaday leaders, who have been sidelined by Hooda in recent times.
Ajay Singh, who was the second most senior minister in the Hooda cabinet, was stripped of his finance portfolio recently.
Similarly, the face-off between Hooda and Indrajit Singh had come to light only a few days after the Gurgaon municipal elections.
While the Hooda camp was supporting another Independent for the mayor's post, the local MP stood behind Vimal Yadav. But sources said that after an over one-and-a-half-year truce between Singh and Hooda, differences had resurfaced recently.
They said that Indrajit was not allowed to address a rally in Mewat that was attended by the party president,
Sonia Gandhi, despite the fact that he is representing the Lok Sabha constituency. The two leaders sent a strong message to the Hooda camp when they hugged each other on the stage to show their unity. The need to strengthen the Ahirwal community was also stressed by other leaders who attended Sunday's programme.
Yadavs, who are known as Ahirs, are in a majority in southern Haryana and they play the key role in the politics of this region. Veteran Congress leaders feel that the two leaders have come together in the wake of Indrajit Singh not getting a berth in the Union Cabinet. "They are in a relationship of mutual need and if they stay together they will be recognized as a force to reckon with," said a party leader.