Chandigarh, July 6 -- Former Haryana Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday launched a sharp attack on the BJP government, accusing it of burdening students with steep fee hikes, mishandling recruitment examinations, allowing corruption to flourish and pushing the state into mounting debt.
Addressing a press conference in Rohtak, Hooda alleged that the government had imposed a fee hike of up to 400 per cent for medical and paramedical courses at the University of Health Sciences, Rohtak (UHSR), effective from August 1. He said the move would make higher education unaffordable for aspiring doctors, nurses and pharmacists and urged the government to withdraw the decision.
Hooda also raised concerns over alleged irregularities in the Haryana Teacher Eligibility Test (HTET), claiming candidates had reported incorrect OMR sheets, wrong and unsealed question papers, serial number mismatches and errors in the language of questions. He demanded an impartial probe into the alleged lapses.
Claiming that recruitment irregularities were persisting despite a shortage of teachers, Hooda said 16,435 of the state's 1,01,499 sanctioned teaching posts remained vacant.
He further alleged that Haryana's debt had risen sharply under the BJP government, claiming it had increased from around Rs 60,000-70,000 crore before 2014 to nearly Rs 5.5 lakh crore by 2026.
Referring to alleged scams in paddy procurement, the banking sector and the theft case at a Ram temple, Hooda accused the government of attempting to suppress
investigations.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.