Congress to make issues of farmers, common people as poll planks for assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana

The Congress on Saturday said it will raise suicides by farmers and “pro-people” issues such as corruption and loss of jobs in the assembly polls next month, that the governments in Maharashtra and Haryana are trying to deflect. The opposition party claimed the government is on its way out due to “slowdown and lockdown”.

Soon after the Election Commission announced the election schedule in Maharashtra and Haryana, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera welcomed it and said the party is completely ready to contest the polls. He said the people in Jharkhand were also looking forward to polls in their state.

“But when polls in three states cannot be held simultaneously, the government talks about One Nation, One Poll,” he said.