Former Haryana chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Sunday, 18 August, that his party has "lost its way" and that "it is not the same Congress it used to be", while speaking in Rohtak ahead of the Assembly elections in the state scheduled to be held later this year.
Speaking on the effective revocation of Article 370 by the Centre, Hooda said that he supported the decision. "But I want to tell the Haryana government that you will have to give an account of what you did in (the last) five years. Don't hide behind this decision. Our brothers from Haryana are deployed as soldiers in Kashmir, that is why I supported it," he added.