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Haryana Govt spent Rs 17 cr on ad blitzkrieg, Cong hits out

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Opposition Congress on Monday hit out at the Haryana government for spending nearly Rs 17 crore on the publicity blitzkrieg as part of its completion of one year in office, claiming that the amount was spent on “non-existent achievements”.

The current Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar also seem to follow the ex CM Hooda’s footsteps.

Panipat-based RTI activist P P Kapoor said that out of this amount, nearly Rs 6 crore was spent on functions organised for Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his ministerial colleagues to publicise the BJP governments achievements, another Rs 4 crore was spent on advertisements in various newspapers.

Besides print media, electronic media was given advertisement worth about Rs 4.30 crore, he told reporters. Stating that he procured the concerned documents through RTI, Kapoor further informed that about Rs 25 lakh was spent on advertisements to various magazines.

He added that the money was spent during the period between October 21-November 5.

The first ever BJP government in Haryana completed one year in office on October 26 this year.

Haryana Congress President Ashok Tanwar termed the publicity spending revelations as “unfortunate”.

“Spending Rs 17 crore just on advertisements to tell people that we have completed one year and to talk about non-existent achievements, is unfortunate. The BJP governments only achievement has been to take credit for the schemes and projects initiated during the previous Congress government,” he said.

He said that BJP, which claims itself to be a party with a “difference” should rather have utilised this money for meeting their “unkept poll promises” including giving unemployment allowance to the youth or giving Rs 2,000 per month as old age pension to the beneficiaries rather than cheating them with meager annual raise.

“But to use this money for some kind of false publicity, how can this be justified? We want to ask the chief minister and his cabinet colleagues is this not a waste of public money,” Tanwar asked.

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