The debate on discrimination against the Sirsa and Fatehabad areas during the present Bhupinder Singh Hooda regime has hot up after allegations of INLD nominee Sita Ram in this regard.

Congress nominee for the Sirsa (reserved) seat Ashok Tanwar today asked INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala to make his party’s stand clear on the Hansi-Butana Link Canal and supply of water to South Haryana.

Reacting to the statement of Sita Ram that Sirsa and Fatehabad areas would not get water for drinking purpose, what to speak of irrigation water, in case water started flowing in the newly constructed canal, Tanwar said the INLD should make its stand clear on this issue as Ajay Singh Chautala had been promising in the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh area that he would bring water in the canal, while Chuatala’s younger son Abhey Singh and Sita Ram had been speaking in a different tone in Sirsa.

IYC president Sanjay Chhokar also rebutted Sita Ram’s assertions that Sirsa and Fatehabad had been discriminated against by the present regime and said Hooda was the only Chief Minister who had ensured the development of the state without discrimination against any areas.

Earlier, Tanwar inaugurated his election office at Fatehabad in the morning.

Meanwhile, Congress leaders of both Sirsa as well as Fatehabad are busy mobilising support for tomorrow’s rally to be addressed by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, in charge for Haryana in the AICC Prithviraj Chauhan and HPCC president Phool Chand Mullana.

Tanwar will also file his nomination papers tomorrow. Shilpa Verma, district president of the Haryana Pradesh Mahila Congress, toured villages with her workers, while DCC president Hoshiari Lal Sharma and Block Congress president Bhupesh Mehta also mobilised support for the rally.