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Former Haryana Chief Minister and elder Congress person Bhupinder Singh Hooda connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) said the emergence of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) reflected wide vexation with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government’s failures, peculiarly connected the contented of unemployment.
The Congress, helium said, had been consistently raising people-centric issues successful its relation arsenic the main Opposition enactment and would proceed to bash so, portion the CJP was successful its formative stage. “What the CJP genuinely stands for, what benignant of enactment yet emerges from its ranks, and what halfway issues it chooses to champion — each of this remains to beryllium seen,” Mr. Hooda told The Hindu.
“The demands being raised by the CJP are not new. Congress person Rahul Gandhi has already been vocal astir these precise issues for a agelong time. Mr. Gandhi has consistently called for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. The Congress remains a formidable unit and the main Opposition enactment successful the country,” helium said.
“It (the CJP) is simply a benignant thermometer, a measurement of the public’s discontentment. The BJP should code these pressing issues alternatively than ignoring them,” helium said.
Hitting retired astatine the BJP authorities successful Haryana, Mr. Hooda, who is besides the Leader of the Opposition successful the Haryana Assembly, said the Congress would powerfully rise the issues of inflation, introspection insubstantial leaks, powerfulness and h2o supply, and the deteriorating instrumentality and bid concern wrong and extracurricular the Haryana Assembly, “among the radical crossed the State”.
“We volition clasp a Congress Legislature Party (CLP) gathering erstwhile each month, deliberate connected nationalist issues and accordingly formulate strategies to country the government. We person acceptable up a committee to support tabs connected the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. All Congress members, including MLAs, district-level leaders, and Booth-Level Agents volition play an progressive relation with afloat vigour successful the SIR process until July 15. They volition stay vigilant against immoderate signifier of irregularity. We volition guarantee that nary valid ballot is deleted from the rolls, and conversely, that nary fraudulent votes are added,” Mr. Hooda said.
On Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s repeated visits to Punjab successful the run-up to the Assembly predetermination owed successful the State successful aboriginal 2027, Mr. Hooda said the BJP had failed to honour its electoral promises successful Haryana, and had nary motivation crushed to question votes successful Punjab.
“They promised ₹2,100 monthly assistance to women supra 18 years, but aboriginal placed respective conditions connected the scheme. While Mr. Saini attempts to merchantability his governance exemplary successful Punjab, the crushed world successful Haryana is starkly different. Organised transgression is rampant successful Haryana, the Social Progress Index ranked Haryana the astir insecure State successful the country, and the NITI Aayog Fiscal Health Index 2025 placed it 14th among 18 large States, pushing it into the bottommost five. The BJP has failed connected each front,” Mr. Hooda said.
Responding to his lack astatine the closing ceremonial for the Statewide ‘Sadbhav Yatra’ organised by Congress person and erstwhile MP Brijendra Singh, lad of seasoned Congress person Birender Singh, Mr. Hooda said helium “didn’t deliberation it was indispensable to go”. “It wasn’t a enactment programme. I did spell erstwhile Rahul Gandhi-ji came. The enactment is united,” helium said.
