In a bid to woo Brahmins ahead of the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha polls in the State next year, former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday promised to appoint a Brahmin Deputy Chief Minister, restore job reservation for the community under Economically Weaker Sections category and set up a “strong” Brahmin Commission if the Congress was voted to power.
In the Jat-dominated politics of Haryana, the Brahmin community, which constitutes around 12% of the State’s population, has been recently trying to politically assert themselves. At an event held a year ago, BJP Rohtak MP Arvind Sharma advocated the need for a Brahmin Chief Minister.
Stressing his family’s four-generation-old relations with the community, Mr. Hooda, at a programme organised by the party’s Badli MLA Kuldeep Vats, said when the Brahmin community held someone’s hand, it supported them till the end. “Today every section of the State understands where Haryana was, and where it has reached now. This pain is in everyone’s heart,” he stated.
