Hisar, Aug 11: Haryana Congress president Bhajan Lal today said the alleged scam relating to the allotment of petrol pumps by the NDA government is not a "small scam," and threatened to launch a state-wide agitation highlighting the issue. "My party will launch a state-wide programme to highlight the scam and to bring the truth before the people," he said in his address to a gathering organised on the occasion of his first visit to Hisar district after being recently appointed as the president of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee.
Bhajan Lal's name had figured along with several senior congress leaders in the list of petrol pump allottees circulated by BJP, though the congress leader has categorically denied having been allotted a petrol pump. Attacking the Om Prakash Chautala government in the state for allegedly not providing any relief to the drought-affected farmers so far, he said Chautala had even failed to take any financial aid from the central government.
He claimed that the ruling Indian National Lok Dal will not get more than five seats in the next assembly elections "as the people of the state are fed up with the anti-people's policies of the state government".
Bureau Report