Tribune News Service
Ruchika M Khanna
Chandigarh, March 7
The Aam Aadmi Party right this moment performed on the front foot within the Vidhan Sabha throughout the conclusion of the controversy on Governor’s deal with amid a walkout by Opposition Congress MLAs.
CM should apologise: Bajwa
- The Congress determined to boycott the proceedings of the Vidhan Sabha till Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann apologised for ‘intimidating Congress MLAs’.
- LoP Partap Singh Bajwa stated they’d not take part within the proceedings of the House if Mann was current.
- “The CM didn’t specific remorse over utilizing the unparliamentary language. We will attend the session provided that he’s not there. When he arrives, we are going to stroll out,” Bajwa stated
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and ministers Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer and Harjot Bains had been on the offensive, concentrating on the Opposition MLAs over “corruption, usurping of panchayati lands, unlawful mining and spreading of misinformation.” Each of them not solely blamed the Congress for his or her “misdeeds” throughout the earlier Congress regime, but additionally highlighted the achievements of their first yr in rule.
Much of this was highlighted within the speech of the Chief Minister delivered after the Congress walked out of the Assembly. The solely difficulty on which the treasury benches gave the impression to be on the defensive was on the problem of law and order, particularly the final month’s Ajnala incident.
As state Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring attacked the federal government over the “deteriorating law and order scenario” underneath the AAP rule, warning them of the rising affect of separatists, his assault was responded to first by Hayer and later by the CM.
Hayer focused the earlier governments, saying that Punjab knew what had occurred prior to now seven or eight years when there was a jailbreak in Nabha or gangsters appeared to flourish.
Mann was extra scathing within the counter-attack, saying that whereas his authorities was in command of the scenario, he needed to know the way a gangster in police custody, being dropped at jail, was ambushed and killed (referring to Sukha Kahlwan, although his title was not taken). “What about these underneath whose regime commerce of chitti goliyan was accomplished? Or whose household honoured Gen Dyer after the Jallianwala bloodbath?” he stated. The CM made these remarks in his concluding speech on the controversy on Governor’s deal with when the Congress MLAs had left.
The Congress MLAs had declared yesterday that they’d boycott the House when Mann entered the House. As quickly as he entered the House and took his seat, Mann taunted the Congress MLAs, asking them if they’d forgotten their declaration made yesterday. Initially, it appeared that the Congress MLAs weren’t inclined to stroll out however they staged a walkout after the taunt.
However, MLA Sukhpal Khaira continued in a verbal duel with Rural Development and Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal over his allegations towards two AAP Rajya Sabha members for usurping panchayat land. Khaira’s allegations had been denied by the minister and the latter as an alternative blamed the Congress MLA for occupying over 10 acres of land in his native village illegally.
Denying this, Khaira stated he was prepared to face an inquiry by a committee of the House, supplied the committee additionally regarded into the unlawful occupation of land by the 2 AAP MPs.
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