Released from Tihar Central Jail on Friday on completion of 10-year jail term in a teachers’ recruitment scam, former Haryana Chief Minister and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Om Prakash Chautala said he planned to visit farmers at protest sites.
Addressing party workers assembled at the Delhi-Gurugram border to welcome the octogenarian leader, Mr. Chautala thanked them for supporting his party against the wrong policies of the government and assured them that he would continue to fight for the poor, downtrodden and farmers.
Mr. Chautala said doctors had advised him a few days of rest, after which he would visit the protesting sites to meet farmers and seek their blessings. He said he will visit villages across the country.
He was jailed in 2013 in connection with the Junior Basic Training teachers recruitment scam case. He was on emergency parole since March 26, 2020, due to the Covid pandemic.
Sunaina Chautala, principal general secretary, women’s cell, INLD, said the release of Mr. Chautala had infused new energy into the workers and the party would return to power with a thumping majority.
A large number of workers holding party flags with the INLD symbol and sporting green headgear turned up at the Delhi-Gurugram border on National Highway-48 to welcome Mr. Chautala.