Overview
- The Congress is running a Jan 13–22 training programme in Kurukshetra for district presidents, with 33 from Haryana and 27 from Uttarakhand.
- Hooda said Rahul Gandhi will meet the district chiefs on January 21 to address the ongoing organisational session.
- Setting priorities for outreach, Hooda highlighted unemployment, organised crime and drugs, migration, farmer neglect, and the marginalisation of poor and SC-OBC communities.
- He alleged no substantive development in 11 years under the BJP in Haryana and cited state debt rising from about ₹60,000 crore pre-2014 to over ₹5 lakh crore.
- Hooda accused the government of missing welfare pledges, including doubling farm incomes by 2022 and broad monthly support for women under Ladli schemes, and he flagged concerns over pressure on media citing the Punjab Kesari Group’s complaint.