Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Thursday that he has served a defamation notice to Cooperatives Minister Manish Grover who accused him of playing a key role in the violence that erupted in Rohtak during the Jat agitation in 2016.
Grover had alleged that Hooda could not digest party's loss in the 2014 assembly polls from Rohtak and in the garb of the Jat stir, he got his men to target shops of a particular community to avenge his defeat.
"I have served a defamation notice. I will be seeking Rs 50 crore as damages for Grover's false and baseless utterances aimed to tarnish my image," Hooda told reporters here.
Rohtak is considered as a stronghold of the Hooda family, but in the 2014 elections, the assembly seat was won by the BJP.
Hooda hit out at the BJP government in the state alleging that it had failed on all fronts.
He said before coming to power they made tall promises, but failed to fulfill them.
Giving some examples of such "unfulfilled promises", Hooda said, "They promised to set up two institutes on AIIMS pattern, international level universities, broadband facilities in villages, extend loan at nominal rates of interest to small traders, but none of these promises were kept."