Rajesh Moudgil is a Special Correspondent in Haryana bureau of Hindustan Times.
Articles by Rajesh Moudgil
Gritty lawyer out to 'improve system'
Ram Kumar Anand, 71, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate from Faridabad Lok Sabha seat, is wit and grit personified. His grip on issues and confident, articulate talk make the otherwise short-statured Anand stand out as a politician.
Updated on Apr 02, 2014 08:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil Rajesh Moudgil, Faridabad
Intense four-cornered contest on the cards
The Ambala Lok Sabha seat, reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), is set to witness a fierce contest between four major political parties – the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). AAP banking on ‘ social capital’ to pick candidates
Updated on Mar 29, 2014 11:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
In Haryana, blood thicker than water
The three famous Lals of Haryana politics — Devi Lal, Bansi Lal and Bhajan Lal — are no more, but their kith and kin are slugging it out in the poll arena, besides other political clans, from most of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Updated on Mar 25, 2014 01:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Haryana’s new eve defies stereotypes
Kusum Sherwal (44), the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate from Ambala (reserved) Lok Sabha seat, is the new face of the Haryana woman — well-educated, confident and enterprising.
Updated on Mar 22, 2014 10:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Leaders in jail, party’s back against the wall
The principal opposition party in Haryana, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is fighting a lonely battle in the Lok Sabha elections this time. With its top leaders — former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and his son Ajay — in jail since last year for a scam in recruitment of junior basic teachers (JBT), circumstances could not have been worse for the INLD, which remains without a partner as its old ally BJP has refused to tie up this time.
Updated on Mar 20, 2014 10:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Behind INLD's ticket strategy, caste calculations and family ties
The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) has made some complex caste and community calculations in allocating tickets for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, also keeping family, friendship and fraternity in mind.
Updated on Mar 16, 2014 12:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Ambala-Yamunanagar NH-73 four-laning project 'dumped'
Here is bad news for the Haryana government as well as for thousands of motorists plying on Ambala-Yamunanagar national highway (NH-73). The private contractor who was given the contract to four-lane the 102-km stretch of the NH-73 has opted out.
Updated on Mar 11, 2014 07:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Politics overshadows development
Two-time Ambala Congress MP Kumari Selja, 51, has left her constituency disappointed. Several development projects, including ones that she had initiated in her earlier Lok Sabha term, remain in limbo due to her political differences with Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Despite a Congress-led government at the Centre and her party in power in the state, Selja could not realise her dream projects mainly due to the non-cooperation of the Haryana government.
Updated on Mar 09, 2014 11:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Yojana Yadav and Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
All eyes set on Sunday as Cong rebels flex muscles
Time is ticking out as all eyes seem anxiously glued on one day - the approaching Sunday - when two Congress rebels will hold rallies. Former Congress strongman Venod Sharma holds a rally (read mahayagna) at Kurukshetra and chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) Dharambir Singh holds a rally (read dharmsena rally) at Bhiwani.
Updated on Mar 07, 2014 07:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
'People of Sirsa would definitely re-elect me for the work I have done'
The Congress' MP from Sirsa, Ashok Tanwar, says that he has helped bring change in areas in his seat that had been neglected for years and that the people of Sirsa would repose faith in him and elect him as their representative again.
Updated on Feb 26, 2014 11:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Sirsa
Keen on another poll arena
To contest or not to contest — that’s the dilemma faced by Congress MP Jitender Malik, who is anticipating a fierce battle in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls. Despite considerable development in his parliamentary constituency, Malik had recently admitted that he would prefer contesting the assembly elections, apparently due to the comfort factor on an easier poll turf (The Vidhan Sabha polls are due in Haryana this year).
Updated on Feb 26, 2014 01:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Sonepat
With Selja no longer in fray, BJP hopes to turn the tables on Cong
The nomination of two-time Congress MP and former union minister Kumari Selja to the Rajya Sabha has given a shot in the arm to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Ambala (reserved) parliamentary constituency.
Updated on Feb 21, 2014 12:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil and Dev Sarup Mathur, Ambala
Rights panel notice to P'kula orphanage staff over injury to child
The Haryana Human Rights Commission has decided to issue a showcause notice to two employees of Shishu Grih, a state-run orphanage at Panchkula for negligence because of which a girl inmate had fallen off an official vehicle and was injured while going to school last year.
Updated on Feb 12, 2014 08:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Haryana lokayukta refuses to review Fauji case
Putting the ball back in the court of Haryana government, the lokayukta has declined to review his recommendation for registration of a criminal case against chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) Ram Kishan Fauji in the graft CD case.
Updated on Feb 12, 2014 03:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Rohtak toll tax lowered after protests, Hooda's intervention
Bowing to protests by Rohtak residents and following the intervention of chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the toll tax on Rohtak-Panipat road was on Saturday reduced from Rs 155 for single day (round trip) to Rs 100 a month (on monthly pass basis) for non-commercial vehicles between Rohtak and Gohana towns.
Updated on Jan 18, 2014 08:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil & Sat Singh, Chandigarh/rohtak
'Encroachment' on govt land Faridabad MC notice to Asaram's ashram
The municipal corporation, Faridabad, (MCF) has sent a notice to the management of an ashram of self-styled godman Asaram at Bhankhari village, near NIT, Faridabad, to remove an alleged encroachment upon half-an-acre of government land or else the MCF will remove it at the cost of ashram.
Updated on Dec 25, 2013 02:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Return of locusts
Locusts are back. This time through modern-age aerial channels: television, radio, the Net and high-end phones. Our skies again seem covered by the swarms (not the original ones that eat grain and have been curbed for three decades). Rajesh Moudgil writes.
Updated on Dec 18, 2013 09:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
AAP set to intensify efforts to strengthen its base in Haryana
After its stunning debut in recently held assembly polls in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party has now decided to intensify efforts to strengthen the organisation in Haryana.
Updated on Dec 17, 2013 11:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Hooda again writes to Centre for norms' relaxation for milled rice
Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has again written to union minister of state for food and public distribution KV Thomas to relax the norms pertaining to milled rice in the wake of the damage caused to paddy by untimely rains in October in the state.
Updated on Dec 07, 2013 07:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Agricultural dept for vigilance probe against Khemka
More trouble, it seems, is in store for Haryana IAS officer, Ashok Khemka. The agriculture department has recommended a vigilance probe into the allotment of a work order to an Ahmedabad-based company, M/s Proflex Systems, by Khemka during his tenure as managing director, Haryana State Warehousing Corporation (HSWC), in 2009.
Updated on Dec 03, 2013 08:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Hitender Rao & Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Hooda seeks relaxation in norms for milled rice from Centre
Taking a serious view of the damage caused to the paddy by untimely rains in October, chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has written to union minister of state for food and public distribution KV Thomas to relax the norms pertaining to milled rice.
Updated on Nov 26, 2013 06:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Ambala Dalit's 'custodial' death: stricter sections in FIR against cops says NCSC
The National Commission for Schedule Castes (NCSC) has told the Haryana police to add strict sections in the FIR against the police personnel allegedly responsible for the custodial death of a Dalit youth in Ambala and also get the probe shifted outside Ambala.
Updated on Nov 19, 2013 09:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Hooda sops to put over Rs 3,000-cr burden on state exchequer
The 31 announcements made by chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda at Gohana rally on November 10 would put an annual additional burden of over Rs 3,000 crore on the state exchequer.
Updated on Nov 19, 2013 10:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Rana resigns as HPSC member
A day after he was arrested in Palwal for being involved in an attempt-to-murder case, Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) member Harinder Pal Rana submitted his resignation to the state government here on Thursday.
Updated on Nov 15, 2013 12:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
State health dept docs find no reason to stay
The Haryana health department seems to be at the centre of trouble at present. With no fresh recruitments and those already employed with the department also leaving in the name of poor pay packages and denial of "justified perks", the department is reeling under sever staff crunch.
Updated on Nov 12, 2013 07:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Remembering Reshma
Folk singer Reshma's eyes spoke deeper than her voice. I think this made her persona even more mesmerising. Her eyes spoke as she talked to me for a few minutes at the fag-end of a press conference at the residence of one of her show organisers in Panchkula a few years ago. It was probably her last visit to the region. Rajesh Moudgil writes
Updated on Nov 05, 2013 10:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil
1 CD in, lokayukta sends notices to Abhey, Arora
Having received a compact disc (CD) allegedly showing five Congress legislators and three others seeking money for facilitating change of land use (CLU) licences, the anti-corruption ombudsman has sent notices to Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leaders Abhey Chautala and Ashok Arora to authenticate its genuineness.
Updated on Oct 31, 2013 11:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Haryana to chargesheet Khemka for minor offences
The Haryana government has decided to chargesheet 1991-batch IAS officer Ashok Khemka, this time for minor penalties in the case of alleged low sale of wheat seeds when he was the managing director, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation Limited (HSDCL), earlier this year.
Updated on Oct 18, 2013 01:03 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Haryana prepares another chargesheet against Khemka
The Haryana government has prepared another chargesheet against 1991-batch IAS officer Ashok Khemka, this time for minor penalties in the case of alleged low sale of wheat seeds when he was the managing director, Haryana Seeds Development Corporation Limited (HSDCL), earlier this year.
Updated on Oct 17, 2013 08:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh
Hooda hosts lunch for MLAs, prepares for polls
Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda hosted a lunch for all Congress legislators and ministers here on Tuesday, rolling out the party’s roadmap for the general elections.
Updated on Oct 16, 2013 10:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Rajesh Moudgil, Chandigarh