Delegation of Haryana Congress stopped from entering affected villages in Nuh

GURUGRAM, Aug 8 (PTI): A 10-member delegation of Haryana Congress on Tuesday was stopped from
entering violence-hit villages of Nuh district, police said.
Citing curfew imposed in the area and security concerns for the delegation, a senior police officer said
the delegation was stopped at Rojka Meo village and were stopped from entering villages affected by
the communal clashes in the district. The delegation returned after that, police said.

Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda said they wanted to listen to the problems of affected people
in Nuh city and send out a message of peace.
“If the huge force deployed today to stop us had been deployed that day also, there would have been
no clash between the two communities. The government is entirely responsible for this whole episode.
Obviously, the government was negligent and their intentions were not right,” Hooda said.
“The purpose of the delegation was to meet traders and other affected people of Nuh city, and give out
a message of peace after listening to their issues. We also wanted to visit the Shiva temple at Nalhar,”
he added.
The delegation was led by state Congress president Chaudhary Udaybhan. Deepender Singh Hooda,
Captain Ajay Singh Yadav, Mahendra Pratap, BB Batra, Bajrang Das Garg, Rao Dan Singh, Pankaj Dawar
and Jitender Bhardwaj were also part of the delegation.
Hooda also said that both the home guards who died in the violence should be given “martyr status”.
The family of the deceased should also be given financial assistance and a family member should also be
given a job, he said.
Slamming the Haryana government, senior Congress leader Captain Ajay Singh Yadav said, “The Haryana
government is not even ashamed of its failure. Our delegation wanted to go to Nuh with the purpose of
restoring peace. Politics is of no use at this point,” Yadav said.
Party state chief Chaudhary Udaybhan said that they will inform the Congress high command that were
stopped from visiting the affected parts of Nuh.
Meanwhile, the police said that a the work of the administration would have increased if there was a
“political visit”.
“Permission is not allowed due to the imposition of Section 144 in the district. The administration is
making every possible effort to help the victims. If there is a political visit, the work of the administration
will increase,” Nuh SP Narender Bijarnia said.
“The situation is moving towards complete normalcy. To prevent any further disruption, we are
requesting them to undertake their visit after the situation becomes completely normal,” Bijarnia said.
Curfew was relaxed for four hours in Nuh during the day, according to the district magistrate.
Six people, including two home guards and a cleric, died in last week’s communal clashes that erupted
when a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession was attacked by mobs in Nuh and later spread to adjoining
Gurugram.
A total of 312 people have been arrested and 106 taken into preventive detention in connection with
the communal clashes in the state.
Besides, 142 FIRs have been registered Nuh, Gurugram, Faridabad, Palwal, Rewari, Panipat and Bhiwani
and other places, Haryana home minister Anil Vij said in a statement on Tuesday.

LS briefly disrupted as Oppn protests tickers on Sansad TV highlighting
govt works
NEW DELHI, Aug 8 (PTI): Lok Sabha was briefly disrupted on Tuesday during a discussion on the no-
confidence motion following opposition members’ loud protest against tickers running on Sansad TV
that highlighted development works of the government during the live broadcast of the debate in the
House.
Soon after BJP member Nishikant Dubey began speaking against the motion, several opposition
members, including the Congress, TMC and the DMK, protested over the issue.

Some members of the treasury benches, including ministers, were seen taking a swipe at the Opposition
for its inability to come to terms with the development ushered in by the government.
Speaker Om Birla sought to calm down opposition members, noting that a different system was in place
to run the Sansad TV after it was created following the merger of the Lok Sabha TV and the Rajya Sabha
TV.
He later said he has given instructions, a suggestion that the tickers will stop running, and that
happened in a couple of minutes.
Opposition members were seen saying that tickers should only refer to the current proceedings in the
House.
A debate on the no-trust motion moved by the opposition against the government is on and Prime
Minister Narendra Modi is expected to reply on August 10.