Haryana Diary: Mystery of former MLA Bharat Singh Beniwal’s one-day campaign

Hisar: The absence of former Congress MLA Bharat Singh Beniwal was among the most talked about issue, along with the farmers’ agitation, among the voters in Ellenabad. After much prodding, he returned to campaign with state Congress president Kumari Selja for only a day. But soon, he proceeded to Chandigarh for a surgery and did not appear in the campaign. For the voters, especially in the rural segment where he is quite popular for his plain-speaking speeches, he had given the campaign a miss deliberately for obvious reasons that he was a rival contender to Pawan Beniwal for the Congress ticket. However, he finally surfaced in his native Darba village during the voting on Saturday and flaunted his finger showing an ink mark to prove that he had cast his vote.

Delay in road repair cause of embarrassment

Faridabad: Unusual delay for the repair of potholed city roads for the past several months has also emerged as a cause of embarrassment for the ruling party politicians. While some of the leaders are seen skipping the reply to such queries, a senior BJP leader faced embarrassment when someone from the crowd quipped that “Do mahine to ho gaye, do aur dekh lenge (two months have passed already, will wait for another two), in response to a reply of the leader who announced that roads will be fixed in the next two months. The leader was asked by an attendee about when the broken roads would be repaired during the inauguration of the newly built bridge. Similarly, a top leader of the party got offended recently when a scribe asked him if the roads in the city would be repaired in the remaining tenure of the present government.

BJP old-timer joins AAP

Rohtak: It is rightly stated that there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics. Loveleen Tuteja alias Lovely, who has remained associated with the BJP for nearly two decades, has already started slamming the Chief Minister and other BJP leaders after parting ways with the saffron party. Lovely, who was state media co-in charge of the BJP, recently joined the Aam Aadmi Party as its state spokesman. “The ideology of the BJP is not what it used to be. The ideals set by our leader Dr Mangal Sen have been forgotten by the party’s present leadership,” said Lovely, who holds the ruling party responsible for dividing the residents and pushing the state towards arson and anarchy.

DAP shortage troubling ruling party MLAs

Rewari: The acute shortage of DAP fertiliser not only is troubling farmers but also MLAs of the ruling BJP and ministers of the state government as they were facing the wrath of farmers. It forced Co-operative Minister Banwari Lal and Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Om Prakash Yadav to raise the issue before the Chief Minister with the intention to pacify farmers. “It was for the first time when the ministers seemed helpless in resolving the issue as it pertained to the Centre, but farmers of their area were troubled,” reacted a local leader.