Haryana BJP minister Anil Vij slams Haryana BJP CM Nayab Saini: “He never comes down from his flying chariot’

Hours later, the authorities transferred Ambala Deputy Commissioner Parth Gupta. Gupta, a 2013 batch IAS officer, to the neighbouring territory of Yamunanagar, and Ajay Singh Tomar has been appointed successful his place. Though the authorities did not officially notation immoderate reason, sources said it was linked to the Vij episode. Asked astir Vij’s allegation that “officers were not listening to him”, Saini told reporters successful Rohtak, “Anil Vij is our leader.”

Vij, earlier successful the day, alleged that during the elections, a elder enactment person tried to guarantee his decision and adjacent orchestrated an onslaught connected him. The curate said wrong a week of winning the election, his seventh, helium had “publicly raised the contented of those who played a relation successful trying to decision me, whether they were officials, employees, oregon insignificant governmental figures”.

“At first, I suspected that idiosyncratic with beardown governmental backing had tried to decision maine and adjacent went arsenic acold arsenic attempting to person maine eliminated,” VIj went connected to say. “But now, aft nary enactment has been taken against them, I americium convinced of it. Since I americium the senior-most person and I americium saying that efforts were made to decision me, enactment should person been taken immediately. If not strict action, astatine slightest they should person been transferred oregon expelled from the party. But adjacent aft 100 days, thing has been done, and now, whether they enactment oregon not, it nary longer matters to me.”

On Thursday, Vij said helium had discontinued the “janata darbar (public meetings)” helium utilized to clasp successful his constituency Ambala Cantonment arsenic “officers are not doing the enactment (on my instructions)” and that helium would motorboat an agitation if this continued.

Independent campaigner and erstwhile Congress person Chitra Sarwara who finished 2nd down Vij successful the Assembly polls past twelvemonth said the minister’s comments revealed his failure. “The radical of Ambala voted for Anil Vij 7 times truthful that helium could bash their work. Your enactment gave you ministership. You should not springiness a menace to observe a fast-unto-death and motorboat an agitation. When the budget of crores was being allotted to Ambala, you said works were done astatine the velocity of a bullet,” she said.

Anil Vij’s galore rebellions

This is not the archetypal clip that Vij has targeted the enactment leadership. He precocious called for the party’s authorities president Mohan Lal Badoli to resign from his station aft the Himachal Pradesh Police booked him successful a gang-rape case. Vij said the allegations were superior and expressed assurance that the party’s cardinal enactment would instrumentality due action. He was the lone authorities BJP person to telephone for Badoli’s resignation.

Last year, aft the BJP replaced Manohar Lal Khattar with Saini arsenic CM, Vij walked retired of a legislature enactment meeting, drove backmost to his location successful Ambala Cantonment, and reused to be Saini’s swearing-in ceremony. Vij, 1 of the astir elder BJP leaders successful the state, had mislaid retired to Khattar successful the contention for CM and had to beryllium placated with cardinal portfolios specified arsenic location and health.

However, his run-ins with Khattar continued. In December 2020, Vij and Khattar were astatine loggerheads implicit the quality wing. Vij who held the Home portfolio insisted that, on with the CM, helium excessively should besides person regular briefings from authorities quality officials. Eventually, some met the BJP enactment successful Delhi and the quality helping of the CID went to Khattar.

In October 2023, the curate directed the constabulary apical brass to suspend 372 investigating officers for not taking enactment connected complaints pending for much than a year. More than 100 officers subsequently faced suspension. A period later, helium stopped clearing files and chairing the Health Department’s meetings successful protestation against “interference by the main minister’s bureau (CMO) officials”.

However, helium is politically important to the BJP due to the fact that of his power successful the Ambala part that has 18 Assembly constituencies. Though the BJP swept the portion successful the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, taking a pb successful each 18 Assembly segments, it won lone 9 successful the Assembly elections a fewer months down the enactment and again took the pb successful lone 9 Assembly segments successful the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. In the Assembly elections, the Congress outperformed the BJP successful this region, winning 12 seats portion the remainder went to the latter. Without Vij, the enactment is astir apt to find it hard to get adjacent those electoral returns and interruption the Congress’s clasp successful this region.