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Sack Punjab minister for holding BBMB chairman hostage: Hooda

Demands central forces be deployed at Bhakra-Nangal dam instead of Punjab Police; accuses AAP of politicising water distribution with eye on elections.

Former Haryana chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday demanded that Punjab AAP minister Harjot Singh Bains, who held BBMB chairman Manoj Tripathi hostage for two hours at Nangal dam, should be sacked immediately. (HT file photo)

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Published on May 08, 2025 05:06 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Cong, INLD slam Punjab govt for stopping Haryana’s share of water

Addressing a press conference here, Hooda said that the Punjab government has attacked the federal structure by stopping Haryana’s share of water from the Bhakra Nangal Dam.

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda addressing a press conference in Rohtak on Friday. (Manoj Dhaka/HindustanTimes)

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Published on May 03, 2025 08:06 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Rohtak

Hooda to start ‘Samvidhan Bachao’ yatra from Ambala tomorrow

Along with Hooda, state Congress president Udai Bhan, Ambala MP Varun Chaudhary and other senior Congress leaders will also attend.

On Friday, the MLA chaired a special meeting of Congress workers and office-bearers at his residence to discuss the programme. (HT File)

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Published on May 03, 2025 08:00 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Hooda seeks compensation, job for Vinay Narwal’s kin

“There is anger in the whole country due to this cowardly act of the terrorists and the country is united against terrorism. The country demands from the government that the culprits not be spared under any circumstances and whatever tough decisions are required to end terrorism should be taken,” he said.

Hooda met the bereaved family and consoled them over their loss and prayed to God for peace of the departed soul. (HT File)

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Published on Apr 26, 2025 08:24 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Karnal

Hooda condemns terror attack

“There is anger in the entire country due to this cowardly act of terrorists. Until the cowards and their masters are brought to justice, the victim families will not get justice,” the Congress leader said.

Hooda paid tributes to deceased navy officer, Vinay Narwal, a resident of Karnal. (HT File)

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Published on Apr 24, 2025 05:30 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Haryana Cong leaders protest EDs action against Sonia, Rahul

As per the police, 115 Congress functionaries, including 28 MLAs, three MPs and 65 party workers were detained.

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda during the protest in Chandigarh on Thursday. (Keshav Singh/HT)

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Published on Apr 18, 2025 08:44 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Haryana: BJP pushed state into abyss: Hooda

The state government should address issues like unemployment, ‘deteriorating’ law and order, says former state chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Hooda (HT file)

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Published on Apr 15, 2025 08:18 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Rohtak

Hooda slams BJP govt’s move to sack contract employees

In a statement, the former CM said that BJP government has committed a fraud with contract employee hired by HKRN as it took votes from them by telling lies.

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday criticised the Haryana government’s move to sack contractual employees hired by Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam. (HT File)

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Published on Apr 05, 2025 07:28 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Hooda slams BJP govt for delay in Hisar airport construction

In a statement, Hooda alleged that the BJP government not only caused a historic delay in the construction of the airport approved during the Congress tenure but also committed a scam.

The Congress leader said the extent of scam in the project can be seen from the fact that the boundary wall of the airport was built without foundation. (HT File)

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Published on Apr 03, 2025 06:36 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Haryana Congress leader Hooda picks holes in 2025-26 budget estimates

The former chief minister said that the increase in 2025-26 budget outlay was not 13% as claimed by the chief minister in his budget address. “The increase is 7.6%. And if we consider the 4.8% inflation as mentioned in economic survey, the actual increase will be 3.1%,” Hooda said.

During the general discussion on the budget estimates, Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said though the chief minister claimed in his budget address that the revenue deficit, fiscal deficit and debt to GSDP ratio was within prescribed limits, a 2022-23 audit report of the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) tells a different story. (HT File)

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Published on Mar 21, 2025 06:50 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Chaos in Haryana assembly as BJP, Congress spar over job irregularities

Uproar after BJP MLA Om Parkash Yadav cites recent HC verdict that questioned government recruitments during former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s tenure in 2008.

The opposition Congress and ruling BJP MLAs locked horns over alleged irregularities in government job recruitments during the tenure of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda (extreme left), seen here during the assembly session in Chandigarh on Monday. (Keshav Singh/HT)

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Published on Mar 18, 2025 02:23 PM IST

ByPawan Sharma

Budget a jugglery of statistics, says Hooda

Reacting to the budget speech of chief minister Nayab Singh Saini the Congress leader said the government decreased the budget of all the departments providing essential services, including agriculture, irrigation, education, health, energy, transport, public health, cooperation and home

Former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda (File)

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Published on Mar 18, 2025 09:50 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Setback for Hooda on home turf as BJP’s Valmiki wins Rohtak mayoral election

The Rohtak mayoral election results are a major setback to former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the Congress candidate lost the battle despite the party winning all four assembly seats in the assembly polls in October last year.

BJP candidate from Rohtak municipal corporation, Ram Avtar Valmiki won by 45,198 votes against Congress mayor candidate Surajmal Kiloi in Rohtak on Wednesday. (Manoj Dhaka/HindustanTimes)

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Published on Mar 13, 2025 07:54 AM IST

BySunil Rahar, Rohtak

Haryana: BJP govt failed to fulfil its promises, says Hooda

Addressing a press conference here, Hooda accused the BJP government for not carrying out any development work in its entire tenure in Haryana

Haryana former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda (File)

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Published on Feb 22, 2025 03:00 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Rohtak

Family of slain BSP leader should get justice: Hooda

“The Congress party stands with the victim’s family, and it is the responsibility of the government to provide justice to Rajjumajra’s family. The state government should ensure that the culprits are punished,” Hooda said in a statement.

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday said that the family of slain Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Harbilas Rajjumajra should get justice. (HT File)

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Published on Jan 29, 2025 06:02 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Hooda denounces power rate hike in Haryana, says govt did nothing good in 100 days

The Congress leader denounced the state government’s hiking Fuel Surcharge Adjustment, or FSA, by 47 paise per unit, and alleged the move was supposed to rob 84 lakh electricity consumers in the state.

Hooda also said the incumbent government did not nothing in the 100 days since coming to power. (HT File)

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Updated on Jan 18, 2025 05:56 AM IST

ByPress Trust of India, Chandigarh

Dadupur-Nalvi Irrigation Scheme: HC order a slap on BJP policies, says Hooda

“It has become clear from this decision that the BJP had deliberately de-notified the state’s largest water recharge canal to harm the farmers and the entire state,” said former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda

The Dadupur-Nalvi Irrigation Scheme was conceptualised in the 1980s for irrigating tracts in Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra and Ambala districts. (HT File)

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Updated on Jan 14, 2025 06:24 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Manesar Land scam: Stay orders cease to operate after January 27: HC

The bench was hearing a clutch of petitions, including one from former home secretary Rajeev Arora, who had challenged his summoning order by a Panchkula court in December 2020

The HC bench of justice Manjari Nehru Kaul while fixing January 27 as the next date for hearing of petitions filed in 2020 made it clear that “interim order shall cease to be in operation after the adjourned date ” (File)

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Updated on Jan 11, 2025 07:48 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Data shows BJPs poor showing in Haryana: Hooda

In a statement, Hooda said government data showed that Haryana under the BJP rule became a poor state where 75% of the population is living below the poverty line

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda (HT File)

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Updated on Jan 11, 2025 07:34 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Gurugram land scam: HC upholds CBI court order summoning bizman as accused

The case pertains to the alleged purchase of land from farmers in Gurugram on cheap rates by the developers and others and as per the CBI the purchase was made under “threat and false apprehension of acquisition of the land by then Congress government in Haryana”.

The Punjab and Haryana high court has upheld a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court order regarding summoning of a company director as additional accused in Gurugram land scam involving the former chief minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/ Representational image)

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Updated on Jan 09, 2025 07:34 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Hooda seeks high-level probe into ‘illegal’ mining

The former CM said that according to reports and registered cases, thousands of tonnes of stones have been ‘illegally’ extracted from the Aravalli hills in Nuh

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Updated on Jan 06, 2025 05:08 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Hooda accuses BJP of turning state into a drug hub

In a statement, Hooda alleged that ever since BJP came to power in the state, drug dealers have been having a field day and have fearlessly spread their network all over the state.

“About 11% people used ganja, bhang and hashish for intoxication, while 5% people also use narcotics for sleep problems and a large amount of people used cocaine,” Hooda said (HT File)

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Updated on Dec 18, 2024 08:22 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Haryana: Govt should resolve farmers’ demands through dialogue, says Hooda

Addressing media persons in Rohtak, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the state government’s move is anti-democratic and the Union government should find a solution through dialogue instead of suppressing cultivators’ voices

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the Union government in 2021 had announced to form a committee for MSP when the farmers’ stir was called off. (HT File)

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Updated on Dec 09, 2024 06:10 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Rohtak

Hooda slams BJP govt for failing to check crime in the state

In a statement, the Congress leader said recent crime incidents have exposed the state of law and order in Haryana and criminals are fearlessly committing crimes.

Hooda said 72,000 cases of IPC crimes were reported in 2013, which doubled to 1.25 lakh in 2024. (HT File)

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Updated on Dec 01, 2024 05:00 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Dengue and govt’s neglect taking toll on people: Haryana Cong leader Hooda

He said the condition of hospitals is such that neither beds are available for admitting the patients nor the patients are getting proper treatment

Senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda (HT File)

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Updated on Nov 28, 2024 06:44 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Haryana: Hooda slams Saini govt over ‘no DAP shortage’ claims

Hooda said that during the assembly elections, the BJP leaders had promised to prioritise welfare of farmers, but now the farmers are forced to stand in long queues at police stations in a desperate bid to obtain DAP, with no relief in sight

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Updated on Nov 10, 2024 06:54 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Rohtak

Shortage of fertiliser deliberate to increase sale of nano-DAP: Hooda

In a statement, the Congress leader said that the farmers need about 2.8 lakh tonnes of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) every year in October-November, but this time the farmers they got only 1.20 lakh tonnes of DAP

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda (PTI)

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Updated on Nov 06, 2024 05:46 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

High drama over ‘acting’ Speaker at Haryana assembly inaugural session

Bharat Bhushan Batra of Congress, backed by former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, voiced his disapproval to addressing party’s Raghuvir Singh Kadian, 80, as acting instead of pro-tem Speaker.

The inaugural sitting of the newly elected Haryana assembly began with unexpected drama on Friday when Congress members objected to Raghuvir Singh Kadian (in pic) being addressed as acting instead of pro-tem Speaker. (HT file photo)

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Updated on Oct 26, 2024 09:08 AM IST

ByPawan Sharma

BJP has gone back on its promise of buying paddy at ₹3,100/quintal: Bhupinder Hooda

In a statement, Bhupinder Hooda said that farmers are forced to sell their crops at a rate lower than the minimum support price (MSP) due to non-purchase of paddy in mandis.

Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the BJP government is not even providing di ammonium phosphate (DAP) to farmers for sowing the next crop. (HT File)

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Updated on Oct 24, 2024 09:04 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

Govt should fix MSP for stubble and buy it from farmers: Hooda

Hooda said stubble burning has a very small share in pollution and the real cause of pollution is factories, vehicles and dust.

Hooda also reminded the BJP government of its election promise to buy paddy from farmers at the rate of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>3,100 per quintal. (HT File)

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Updated on Oct 20, 2024 05:40 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Chandigarh

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Demands central forces be deployed at Bhakra-Nangal dam instead of Punjab Police; accuses AAP of politicising water distribution with eye on elections.

Addressing a press conference here, Hooda said that the Punjab government has attacked the federal structure by stopping Haryana’s share of water from the Bhakra Nangal Dam.

Along with Hooda, state Congress president Udai Bhan, Ambala MP Varun Chaudhary and other senior Congress leaders will also attend.

“There is anger in the entire country due to this cowardly act of terrorists. Until the cowards and their masters are brought to justice, the victim families will not get justice,” the Congress leader said.

As per the police, 115 Congress functionaries, including 28 MLAs, three MPs and 65 party workers were detained.

The state government should address issues like unemployment, ‘deteriorating’ law and order, says former state chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda

In a statement, the former CM said that BJP government has committed a fraud with contract employee hired by HKRN as it took votes from them by telling lies.

In a statement, Hooda alleged that the BJP government not only caused a historic delay in the construction of the airport approved during the Congress tenure but also committed a scam.

The former chief minister said that the increase in 2025-26 budget outlay was not 13% as claimed by the chief minister in his budget address. “The increase is 7.6%. And if we consider the 4.8% inflation as mentioned in economic survey, the actual increase will be 3.1%,” Hooda said.

Uproar after BJP MLA Om Parkash Yadav cites recent HC verdict that questioned government recruitments during former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s tenure in 2008.

Reacting to the budget speech of chief minister Nayab Singh Saini the Congress leader said the government decreased the budget of all the departments providing essential services, including agriculture, irrigation, education, health, energy, transport, public health, cooperation and home

The Rohtak mayoral election results are a major setback to former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the Congress candidate lost the battle despite the party winning all four assembly seats in the assembly polls in October last year.

Addressing a press conference here, Hooda accused the BJP government for not carrying out any development work in its entire tenure in Haryana

“The Congress party stands with the victim’s family, and it is the responsibility of the government to provide justice to Rajjumajra’s family. The state government should ensure that the culprits are punished,” Hooda said in a statement.

The Congress leader denounced the state government’s hiking Fuel Surcharge Adjustment, or FSA, by 47 paise per unit, and alleged the move was supposed to rob 84 lakh electricity consumers in the state.

“It has become clear from this decision that the BJP had deliberately de-notified the state’s largest water recharge canal to harm the farmers and the entire state,” said former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda

The bench was hearing a clutch of petitions, including one from former home secretary Rajeev Arora, who had challenged his summoning order by a Panchkula court in December 2020

In a statement, Hooda said government data showed that Haryana under the BJP rule became a poor state where 75% of the population is living below the poverty line

The case pertains to the alleged purchase of land from farmers in Gurugram on cheap rates by the developers and others and as per the CBI the purchase was made under “threat and false apprehension of acquisition of the land by then Congress government in Haryana”.

The former CM said that according to reports and registered cases, thousands of tonnes of stones have been ‘illegally’ extracted from the Aravalli hills in Nuh

In a statement, Hooda alleged that ever since BJP came to power in the state, drug dealers have been having a field day and have fearlessly spread their network all over the state.

Addressing media persons in Rohtak, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the state government’s move is anti-democratic and the Union government should find a solution through dialogue instead of suppressing cultivators’ voices

In a statement, the Congress leader said recent crime incidents have exposed the state of law and order in Haryana and criminals are fearlessly committing crimes.

He said the condition of hospitals is such that neither beds are available for admitting the patients nor the patients are getting proper treatment

Hooda said that during the assembly elections, the BJP leaders had promised to prioritise welfare of farmers, but now the farmers are forced to stand in long queues at police stations in a desperate bid to obtain DAP, with no relief in sight

In a statement, the Congress leader said that the farmers need about 2.8 lakh tonnes of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) every year in October-November, but this time the farmers they got only 1.20 lakh tonnes of DAP

Bharat Bhushan Batra of Congress, backed by former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, voiced his disapproval to addressing party’s Raghuvir Singh Kadian, 80, as acting instead of pro-tem Speaker.

In a statement, Bhupinder Hooda said that farmers are forced to sell their crops at a rate lower than the minimum support price (MSP) due to non-purchase of paddy in mandis.

Hooda said stubble burning has a very small share in pollution and the real cause of pollution is factories, vehicles and dust.

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