Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is within the eye of a storm over a viral video that purportedly exhibits him telling his safety employees to beat up an “AAP employee” and throw him out of the venue of his Jan Samvad programme in Sirsa.
The incident is alleged to have occurred Sunday — the second day of Khattar’s three-day Jan Samvad programme within the state’s villages — throughout which the individuals share their grievances with the CM and he helps resolve them promptly.
Within the video, Khattar is heard talking about the issue of medication in Sirsa’s Dabwali space and asking for ideas to remove the menace.
As a Sikh gentleman within the crowd will get on his ft to provide ideas, Khattar notices somebody on the opposite aspect of the gathering.
“Arrey, rajneeti mat karne do isko. Ye rajneeti karne wala hai, Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) ka karyakarta hai. Iski pitai karo aur isko bahar le jao (This man is right here to do politics. Don’t enable him to do politics right here. He’s an Aam Aadmi Occasion employee. Beat him up and throw him out of the venue),” the CM is heard saying within the video, as safety individuals whisk the person away.
Slamming Khattar, Ashok Tanwar, former Haryana Congress chief and now an AAP chief, informed ThePrint Sunday that AAP staff had tried to satisfy the CM a day earlier to take up the difficulty of discrepancies in Parivar Pehchan Patras — the household ID playing cards issued by the Haryana authorities.
“Our staff needed to satisfy Khattar at Khairekan village yesterday, however they had been detained by the police. At the moment, just a few of them managed to succeed in the (Jan Samvad) venue in Sirsa to lift the difficulty earlier than the CM, however had been crushed up,” he alleged.
Tanwar added that when the CM was organising a Jan Sanvad programme, he ought to enable everybody to lift grievances. He added that AAP staff will proceed to ask the CM and different Haryana ministers questions.
ThePrint reached Khattar’s media adviser Amit Arya over telephone and WhatsApp with queries concerning the video however had not obtained a response on the time of publishing this report. This report will likely be up to date as soon as a response is obtained.
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‘She has come tutored by somebody’
One other video from the identical gathering purportedly exhibits the Haryana CM being impolite to a lady telling him that she just lately misplaced her younger son to medicine.
Khattar first assures her saying “foremost tera beta hun na (I’m like your son),” however when she doesn’t cease talking, the CM is heard saying in Hindi that “she has come tutored by somebody”.
“Preserve quiet and sit down. I’m listening to you,” he provides.
The visibly offended lady is later seen on digicam telling mediapersons that she is a widow and that she had raised her son alone. He died on the age of 25.
“I got here with my grievance that the police usually are not taking motion towards the medicine traffickers, however he (Khattar) informed me that I’ve been tutored by somebody. I misplaced my son. Somebody inform me, how do I carry again my baby,” the girl stated, with tears in her eyes. “The CM didn’t hearken to me,” she added.
Deepender Hooda, Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP, tweeted the video of Khattar’s interplay with the girl Sunday and wrote in Hindi: “A widowed mom who misplaced her younger son. A mom, who misplaced her son to drug trafficking flourishing below the federal government’s safety. A mom, who simply needed motion towards the drug traffickers. Simply see the sort of communication with that mom. Simply see the conceitedness and insensitivity! At the moment is Mom’s Day.”
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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