ROHTAK; The Chief Minister, Mr. Devi Lal lashed out at the Congress (I) and charged it with widening the gap between the rich and the poor by pursuing faulty economic policies since Independence.
Addressing a public meeting at Kosli, 90 km from here he said that the ruling party at the Centre was pro capitalist. He urged the people to defeat it in the coming parliamentary elections and elect persons who belonged to the farming community and other backward and downtrodden castes so as to ameliorate the lot of the have not.
This meeting was the first after the conversion of the Lok Dal Legislature Party into the Janata Dal Legislature Party, Mr. Kirpa Ram Punia, Mr. Ram Narain, Mr. Hukam Singh, Mr. Dhirpal Singh and Mr. Dharamvir, all Ministers were among those who addressed the rally, which was convened under the “Jan Jagaran” programme launched by the Chief Minister.
Kisans Should Rule Mr. Devi Lal cautioned the people not to be misled in the name of Kisan unions and appealed them to support the Janata Dal. The unions, he said, were formed by minority groups and not by those who constituted nearly 80 percent of the population in the country. This majority he said was destined to rule the country and could not be reduced to a beggar’s class.
He criticized the Centre for not agreeing to the State’s Government’s proposal of naming Haryana Agricultural University after the late Prime Minister, Charan Singh. If universities could be named after Govind Ballabh Pant, K. Kamaraj Yashwant Singh Parmar and Jawahar Lal Nehru, why an agricultural university could not be named after Charan Singh. Who was a great agricultural economist and a Gandhian? he asked.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 24, 1989
