Laying the blame for poor law and order situation in Haryana on the ruling BJP government, former state chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the state was being run by criminals, not a political party.
The ruling party in the state, he said, is in a stupor.
“This is the reason why goons and miscreants are fearlessly committing crimes and the general public is forced to live in the shadow of fear. The BJP, which the public has entrusted with the responsibility of security, is itself drunken in power and is directly and indirectly protecting crime,” Hooda said.
Citing recent news reports, Hooda said open firing, ransom calls, kidnappings, and killings have become a norm in the state.
In Rohtak, miscreants fired at a liquor shop and posted a video on Instagram; a ransom of Rs 50 lakh was demanded from a businessman in Hansi; there was firing at a toll plaza; bullets were also fired at a fertilizer shop; a ransom of Rs 50 lakh was demanded from a factory owner; a liquor contractor was shot dead in Kurukshetra; and a person was murdered two days after he was threatened in Pinjore, Hooda recounted.
The BJP, said the former two-time CM, has turned a blind eye to the crime happening every day. “The BJP government is not able to see all this because law and order and public safety have never been its priority,” he stated.
Likening hooliganism to the political party, Hooda accused the Haryana government of pushing the state into ‘mafia rule’.
“This is the reason that whenever the BJP comes to power, hooliganism is established in the state. Earlier, when the BJP and INLD government was in power from 2000 to 2005, there was similar hooliganism and mafia rule in Haryana. There were incidents of firing, ransom and robbery every day. This government has pushed Haryana into mafia rule and gang war,” he added.
Talking about the Social Progress Index (SPI) report of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, the former CM said the report states Haryana as the most unsafe state in the country. “The NCRB report also screams and testifies to this. In 2022, within a year, 1020 murders took place in the state, that is, 3 murders every day. During 2022 itself, 1786 rape cases were reported in Haryana, that is, 4-5 rapes happened every day,” he noted.
Crimes against women too are rampant, he said.
There were 16,743 cases that came to light within a year, which comes to 46 cases registered every day, Hooda said. “With a crime rate of 118.7, Haryana ranks first in the whole country. In 2014-15, the annual cases of crimes against women were around 9,000, which have almost doubled today. There has been an increase of 100 per cent. More than a hundred incidents of theft, robbery, dacoity, ransom and kidnapping take place every day in the state,” he said.
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