Baroda: With the date for bypolls for Baroda assembly constituency announced, the ruling BJP-JJP combine and the opposition parties trained guns at each other.
The bypolls to Baroda seat, which had fallen vacant in April this year after the demise of Congress legislator Shri Krishan Hooda, will be held on November 3 and the votes will be counted on November 10.
State Home Minister Anil Vij said the BJP will field its candidate and will win the contest in alliance with the JJP. Agriculture Minister J P Dalal, said several development projects approved recently will give a boost to development in the constituency.
Hitting out at the Congress, Vij added that people will reject the opposition party and vote in favour of development.
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Both Vij and Dalal took on the Congress on the new farm laws, saying the pieces of legislation were in the interest of farmers and accused the opposition party of misleading them.
While Vij said farmers have understood the Congress “gameplan”, Dalal said it has "always been Congress policy to use somebody else''s shoulder to grind their political axe.”
"Under the farm laws, we have only given farmers an additional option. The arrangement which has been made is to prevent exploitation of farmers by middlemen... We have the best mandi system and the crop purchase at MSP will continue,” Dalal said.
Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said the two alliance partners will soon announce the candidate and win the bypolls.
Attacking the Congress, he said, “People have understood that they are trying to mislead. Those who snatched the land of farmers and looted them when they were in power are now trying to project themselves as sympathisers of the peasants”.
(With input from agencies)
