The long-simmering power struggle between Haryana Cabinet Minister and Faridabad MLA Vipul Goel and Union Minister of State Krishan Pal Gurjar has taken a dramatic new turn. Goel has ordered a sweeping 10-year vigilance review of all works carried out by Municipal Corporation Faridabad, just days after Gurjar publicly called the civic body a den of corruption at a DISHA meeting.
In a letter addressed to Director General Vigilance and copied directly to Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Goel minced no words. Citing the DISHA meeting of May 12, 2026, at which Gurjar, along with MLAs Moolchand Sharma (Ballabgarh), Dhanesh Adlakha (Badkhal), and Satish Phagna (NIT Faridabad), alleged large-scale corruption by Municipal Corporation officers over the last decade, Goel wrote: “To find a clear and correct picture in the whole matter, I would like that a vigilance enquiry may be ordered into the following works and purchases of materials and machinery by Municipal Corporation Faridabad for the last 10 years.”
The letter, a copy of which is with The Tribune, specifically demands vigilance scrutiny of: construction of roads, including quantity, quality, and thickness as per work orders; laying of interlocking paver blocks as per approved specifications; purchase of plants, pots, and tree guards for green belts; sewerage laying and cleanliness, including use of mechanical sweeping machines; and multiple works allotted to a single agency in a discretionary and discriminatory manner. Goel also demanded a detailed update on action taken in the vigilance enquiry already conducted into the Rs 200 crore scam related to MC Faridabad.
What has particularly unsettled senior party leadership is Gurjar’s escalation. After firing the opening salvo at the DISHA meeting by targeting MC Faridabad, Gurjar went further and demanded a similar corruption enquiry into all municipal corporations across Haryana. “The Modi government has zero tolerance for corruption. Not just Faridabad, every MC should be audited, including Gurugram. No matter what the position, nobody can siphon off public money,” Gurjar said in his latest statement.
The sweeping escalation has left many in the party hierarchy deeply uncomfortable, as they feel the demand is casting aspersions on the entire state government and its urban governance record. While the party high command is looking into the issue, it may be noted that both Goel and Gurjar share the same Lok Sabha constituency but have operated as bitter rivals for years.
The lack of consensus between the camp of MLA Vipul Goel and MP Krishan Pal Gurjar had already led to a roadblock in the Faridabad MC mayoral election, with the two factions refusing to budge despite six hours of meetings. One faction comprises Cabinet Ministers Vipul Goel and Rajesh Nagar, while the other comprises Gurjar and MLAs Moolchand Sharma, Satish Phagna, and Dhanesh Adlakha.
The friction spilled into public ridicule in December 2025 when a Faridabad library was inaugurated twice in a single day — once by each camp — an episode that laid bare how dysfunctional the relationship between the two power centres had become.
