Haryana Elections 2024 | Outlook Exclusive with Aftab Ahmad, Congress' Deputy Leader - video Dailymotion

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Aftab Ahmad, Congress' deputy leader of the opposition in the outgoing Haryana Assembly, is seeking re-election from #Nuh in #Haryana. The #BJP has fielded #SanjaySingh, the sitting MLA from #Sohna, against Ahmad. #TahirHussain, the Indian National Lok Dal (#INLD) candidate, will make it a triangular contest.  Nuh has long been a stronghold for #Congress and the #INLD. The BJP has never won from the #Muslim-dominated constituency.  Buoyed by its success in the #LokSabhaElections, where the party won five out of 10 seats in Haryana, the Congress seems confident of returning to power after a decade.  The party has ramped up heat on the ruling BJP by focusing on issues like #Corruption, poor governance, lack of infrastructural development, and discrimination against minorities.  "Bad governance and corruption have stalled Haryana's progress, especially in terms of infrastructure and education," Ahmad told #Outlook.  #CommunalViolence rocked Nuh last year. Six people, including two home guards and a cleric, lost their lives when violence erupted following an attempt to stop a #VHP procession, which then spread to #Gurugram. The police charged Congress' Ferozepur Jhirka MLA, #MammanKhan, under the #UAPA.  A day after the violence, authorities demolished the homes of people accused of being involved in the unrest.  “People have seen through their politics of hate. No community trusts this government anymore. They gave the BJP a fitting reply in the #LokSabhaElections by not voting for them,” Ahmad said.  Voting in all 90 Assembly seats in Haryana will be held on #October5, and results will be declared on #October8.  Reporter: Zumbish  Camera: Suresh Pandey   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

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00:00The Indian People's Party's rule in Haryana for 10 years, from 2014 to 2024, was seen by Haryana and this area.

00:29I think that the Indian People's Party's rule, corruption, discrimination and the work done to stop development in Haryana and especially in this area from 2014 to 2024,

00:49these are the biggest issues.

00:51It is a different thing for the people of this area to be blind, but the government deliberately stopped the development of this area and put a barrier.

01:01And this is the issue, whether it is Shaheed Hassan's medical college or the government of Congress, Sonia ji and Bhupinder Singh Yadav, Bhupinder Singh Buddha gave it to us.

01:14After the loss of thousands of crores, they have been destroying it since 2014.

01:21The road system that we built, instead of moving it forward, they stopped it.

01:27In education, we made a separate cadre of Mewat and worked to remove the lack of teachers in this area.

01:33They have transferred it to other places, there are no teachers in schools.

01:38People are deprived of drinking water and electricity.

01:44More than that, people need help from the administration.

01:49In that, I think that in the legal system, this area should always be defamed and this area should be defamed under false propaganda.

02:02And even last year, on July 31, this area put a black box in front of us, I think this is the result of the government in this area and especially in Haryana.

02:23On the basis of casteism and religion, politics was always about taking advantage of politics.

02:28The result of that was that the government's attitude was like this in this area.

02:36And people understood this.

02:39There was a riot, there was a loss of life, there was a loss of our mutual trust, but people understood that.

02:45And that is the result of the Lok Sabha election.

02:49Central Minister Rao Inderjeet Singh represents this area.

02:54This time, even less than the last time in 2019, the board of 36 communities gave orders to the BJP in this area.

03:02This is a reminder that all the 36 communities in this area understood that the BJP wants to take political advantage by spoiling the peace and mutual brotherhood of this area.

03:15And this time, those who did not want to take a ticket from the BJP, did not want to fight with the BJP.

03:23When the government needed people, neither the BJP nor the local leaders of the BJP came.

03:29To keep their positions safe, they cheated people.

03:34I think this is ours and we are promised for this.

03:38The governance that Congress had started in 10 years, whether it was education, health, drinking water, electricity, whatever infrastructure we had sold, we will revive it again.

03:48And we will establish a better university here.

03:51People will have better employment here.

03:55People will have a better life.

03:57What is your promise for employment?

04:05First of all, under the Social Employment Act, people will get a low-wage job.

04:13We will provide 2 lakh permanent jobs in the entire state.

04:19And the ITI polytechnic here will do the courses in such a way that our children will be able to study in the private sector as well.

04:30People will have a better chance of employment.

04:34Whether we have to bring industries for it or we have to bring business here so that people can get employment.

04:39And will there be a government job in this?

04:41Government job is possible.

04:43As far as I have seen the data, I think I came to the election last time as well.

04:49At that time, the state of employment was very bad and it is still the same.

04:55At that time, people are saying that there must have been an increase of 2% in employment.

05:03If we talk about government jobs, what do you think?

05:09No, they did not get a job in 10 years.

05:12The state of corruption was such that in the offices of the Public Service Commission, crores of rupees were seized from their offices.

05:21The chairman of the Staff Selection Commission was corrupt.

05:24The papers were leaked, the papers were cancelled, the interviews were cancelled.

05:28If the biggest unemployment in the country has increased, then it has increased in our state and it has increased in this area.

05:37We understand that there are talented children in our country who have the ability to advance in the government, government and private sector.

05:48It is said that education is also a big challenge.

05:51Yes, absolutely.

05:52There were dropouts in schools.

05:54Not dropouts, but there are 50% sanctioned vacancies in schools in this area.

06:01For which we keep saying, but they have never tried for it.

06:05What about teachers in schools?

06:08We will make the education system better so that there are minimum dropouts.

06:15We will provide facilities to people when the government comes.

06:20This is also coming from both sides.

06:23When this incident took place in Naghar, we did not get any support from any party.

06:37Neither from the BJP, nor from the Congress, nor from any party.

06:40The BJP was already guilty of that.

06:44And the Congress was the first party to appeal and form a brotherhood with the people.

06:50And the efforts were made on this.

06:52As I said, the results of the Lok Sabha are such that no one believes in them.

07:03Neither Hindus nor Muslims.

07:04No one believes in them.

07:05The feeling of surprise is in this state and in the whole state.

07:10And it is more here.

Haryana Elections 2024 | Outlook Exclusive with Aftab Ahmad, Congress' Deputy Leader

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