Karnal :
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the ruling BJP party and said it had failed to fulfil its poll promises.

He alleged that it had ignored farmers and had not taken any initiative for their betterment.

“We are preparing our manifesto for the elections and have kept several policies for the welfare of the farmers in it,” said Hooda while interacting with farmers and traders at a programme organised by former district president Surinder Narwal in the Assandh grain market.

The former Chief Minister also attended a “smriti sabha” organised in memory of Thakur Bijender Singh, a resident of Salwan and former Additional Advocate General Haryana, and remembered his services in Assandh.

He said farmers of the state would assemble in Chandigarh to discuss their issues on October 25 and later the Congress would include the issues of debt waiver and doubling the income of the farmers in its manifesto. “We will waive the farmers’ loan and double the income the farmers if voted to power,” he said.

Addressing farmers, Hooda said the farming community was happy during his regime, but now it was struggling hard to earn its livelihood. He flayed the government for implementing “Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana” and said that insurance companies were making money and farmers were waiting for compensation.

He said the government was harassing farmers for stubble burning to hide its failure of giving an alternative to farmers. He criticised the lathi-charge on farmers on the Delhi-UP border.

On being asked about the cases registered against him, Hooda maintained, “I am not afraid of the BJP and would not bend. The BJP has registered false cases against me, but truth will prevail.”