Haryana Elections 2024 | Outlook Speaks with Karnal Congress Candidate Sumita Singh - video Dailymotion

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Outlook spoke with Congress candidate and former MLA Sumita Singh, one of the 51 women fielded by major parties in Haryana. Singh, who won the Karnal seat in 2005 and 2009 but lost in 2014 when she contested from Assandh, is now returning to contest from Karnal. This time, she faces BJP candidate Jagmohan Anand, a former media coordinator to ex-Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. Singh is confident about her chances, stating that "people of Karnal have witnessed no major change in the past ten years, even as it has been a CM city." Karnal, once Khattar's stronghold, has now become a key battleground ahead of the October 5 elections, which will decide the fate of 90 assembly seats across the state.  Reporter: Zumbish Camera: Suresh Pandey Editory: Sudhanshu  Follow us: Website: https://www.outlookindia.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Outlookindia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/outlookindia/ X: https://twitter.com/Outlookindia Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaNrF3v0AgWLA6OnJH0R Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@OutlookMagazine Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/outlookindia  #HaryanaElections2024 #Karnal #SumitaSingh #WomenInPolitics #AssemblyElections2024 #Congress

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00:00In fact, I was just talking to some Punjabi colleagues in Karnal,

00:29there is a lot of talk of Hindu interest, but there is also a lot of talk of political issues.

00:38The Lok Sabha elections have put pressure on the central government, the ruling party.

00:51So what do you think, should there be an issue of community in the elections?

01:01Or should the focus be on the politics of issues for Karnal?

01:05Our focus in Karnal is that for the last 10 years, we have had two Chief Ministers.

01:13For the last 10 years, Manohlal Khattar was the CM, then Naib Singh Saini came.

01:17And the people of Karnal got the Chief Minister, but they did not get their MLA.

01:23A common man has some small work, some development work, something else.

01:29So they could not reach them.

01:32And in Karnal, as a CM city, no development, no big project, no big work, nothing happened.

01:40Ten years before that, I was the MLA.

01:43At that time, Kalpana Chawla Medical College was given to us.

01:47And we did a lot of improvement in colleges, we got good teachers, lecturers.

01:53And we brought a lot of professional courses for children.

01:57It is a small town, so they can stand on their own feet.

02:01And we tried to strengthen a lot of infrastructure.

02:04But in the last 10 years, neither did the infrastructure of Karnal city become strong,

02:10no big project came, they made gates everywhere in Karnal.

02:14And all their concentration was on those gates.

02:18And there is so much unemployment in our Haryana.

02:23There is so much unemployment that our children of Haryana, our children of Karnal,

02:28someone sold their house through a donkey, someone sold their land and went abroad.

02:36So today, our issue here is about development, employment of young people.

02:41And our legal system is so bad that there is security outside the homes of at least 10 people in Karnal.

02:51Because they are getting ransom calls.

02:54So your announcement is about development.

02:56Our announcement is about development.

03:00Congress's hand is with the poor, with the women.

03:04And for the young people, our government, sorry, our party, our manifesto,

03:11we have 2 lakh jobs.

03:13In the last government, what happened to them?

03:15They used to get jobs, the children used to do interviews, the papers used to get leaked,

03:19and then they used to stop there and there.

03:22So now our government will come, we will give employment to the children,

03:26and we will free Haryana from drugs.

03:29You talked about women's issues.

03:31So in terms of women's issues, what is the current situation on the ground?

03:37What do you think about this?

03:39I mean, what should women do from a new perspective?

03:41For women, we should do something like this.

03:44First of all, we want that the poor,

03:48see, the rich go to private schools, go to good universities, go abroad, get jobs.

03:54The children of the poor, in our schools, for the last 10 years,

03:58in our schools, there have been no new teachers.

04:01The infrastructure of our schools is not strong.

04:05We should bring new projects for the children,

04:11so that we can take professional courses in the future.

04:15We want to do something like this for the children.

04:18We want to bring the best teachers for them,

04:21so that good teachers come, good teachers come.

04:23There has been no recruitment.

04:24The teachers who are going now, either they are guest teachers,

04:27or they are doing it through the Kaushal Yojana.

04:30Not unmarried.

04:31For women, our common women who do not have a pension,

04:35the government will give them Rs 2,000 every month,

04:38so that they can at least spend some money on themselves.

04:43The gas cylinder, which is so expensive, we will do it for Rs 500.

04:46And our elderly pension, or widow pension, will be Rs 6,000.

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Haryana Elections 2024 | Outlook Speaks with Karnal Congress Candidate Sumita Singh

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