8 Mar :As several leaders are busy in preparations for the Lok Sabha polls, the fourth anniversary of CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress govt in Haryana went virtually unnoticed with a little celebration in the state capital on Sunday.The Chief Minister was also in Delhi for ticket finalisation for the coming elections.However, close associates of the Chief Minister say the Congress is sure to sweep the polls as the people are appreciative of the state government’s performance.They claim that the state Government has ushered in winds of meaningful and resourceful changes, replaced "fear" with hope and catapulted the small, backward state into the big league of "happening, industrialised and progressive states".
Former Union Minister and Ambala MLA Venod Sharma, who is the chairman of the party’s campaign committee, said that pragmatic and forward-looking policies pursued by the government has placed the economy of the state in "high-growth orbit, spelled well-being and welfare of one and all and made Haryana a cynosure of all investing eyes, both domestic and global".
The State’s per capita income has increased to Rs 38,720 in 2007-08 from Rs 35,779 in 2006-07 at constant prices and to Rs 56,280 from Rs 49,038 at current prices, Finance Minister Birender Singh said.