Former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda raised the issue of the ₹590 crore IDFC Bank scam and MNREGA in the Assembly. Hooda described the matter as extremely serious and said it was unfortunate that the BJP government had not taken action so far.
“The government is merely procrastinating, whereas it should have taken strict action against the bank. This massive scam was carried out by manipulating the accounts of 18 government departments. Far from taking action, the government’s attitude, even in the Assembly, is so negative that it is willing to tell its lies but unwilling to listen to the truth from the opposition,” he said.
Speaking on MNREGA, Hooda said the scheme was a revolutionary scheme of the Congress. “During the Congress government, workers in Haryana were paid the highest wages in the country. However, as soon as the BJP came to power, it attacked the rights of workers. After coming to power, the BJP set about weakening MNREGA,” he added.
“The Congress party’s response to a question in Parliament revealed that over 8 lakh MNREGA workers were registered in Haryana. However, in 2024–25, the government provided 100 days of provided under the scheme,” he pointed out.
Speaking to reporters, Hooda alleged that the government was evading the opposition’s questions because scams had become the hallmark of the BJP government. He claimed that dozens of scams had already been exposed prior to the bank scam.
“Recently, a work slip scam worth Rs 1,500 crore was exposed in the Labour Department. This is no small scam but a blatant, government-protected loot of the rights of millions of poor, hardworking labourers. According to revelations, lakhs of work slips and labour registrations were found to be fake, and crores of rupees went into the pockets of people who had no connection to labour,” he stated.
He further alleged that scams worth thousands of crores of rupees had occurred during BJP rule, including the liquor scam, mining scam, Gwal Pahari scam, paddy scam, cooperative scam, FPO scam, HSSC recruitment scam, cash-for-job scam, HPSC bribery scam (where cash was seized from the office), paper leak scam, millet procurement scam, ration scam, sanitation fund scam, and roadways kilometre scheme scam.
He added that the HTET scam, scholarship scam, crop insurance scam, electricity meter purchase scam, medical equipment purchase scam, sugar mill scam, Amrit Yojana scam, road construction scam, stadium construction scam, family ID scam, property ID scam, Ayushman Yojana scam, Gurugram Municipal Corporation scam, and Faridabad Municipal Corporation scam also occurred during BJP rule.
“The Rs 180 crore scam involving a foundationless boundary wall at Hisar Airport occurred, while valuable land worth hundreds of crores of rupees was auctioned in Kaithal for a mere Rs 12 crore. Furthermore, the recruitment scam in Haryana likely surpassed all other scams in the country,” he said.
He recalled that Rs 3.60 crore in bribes was allegedly recovered from officials at the HPSC office. He claimed that question papers for nearly every competitive exam had been leaked.
“There is no recruitment in Haryana whose paper has not been leaked or whose exam has not been cancelled. A rate list was revealed during the interrogation of the officer who allegedly took bribes — Rs 35 to 40 lakh for a dental surgeon, Rs 20 lakh for a staff nurse, Rs 10 lakh for an ANM. Similarly, there were varying rates for every post, big or small. In the HPSC Dental Surgeon Recruitment Exam of 2021, a case involving a BJP councillor and a VHP leader allegedly embezzling lakhs of rupees in the name of securing jobs also came to light,” he said.
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