Chandigarh, Sep 10 (IANS) Expressing dissatisfaction over the short duration of the recently-concluded monsoon session of the Haryana state assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said it will seek intervention of its central leadership in this issue.
‘We have decided to meet our central leaders including Nitin Gadkari, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley. We will urge them to ask the authorities concerned to bring some central law in Haryana so that we can have Vidhan Sabha (assembly) sessions of longer duration,’ BJP legislator Anil Vij told reporters.
‘The ruling Congress said the opposition had no concrete issue to discuss in the Vidhan Sabha. This was entirely wrong. Actually the Congress was afraid of our questions regarding its failures in various fields. This is highly undemocratic,’ stated Vij, who is also leader of the BJP legislative group in the Haryana assembly.
Talking about the issue of floods, which have recently lashed various districts of Haryana, Vij said: ‘Chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is claiming that floods were a natural calamity, and he is trying to shield his failures. For the last many years, they had not cleaned the canals and rivers that led to this devastating situation.’
‘Now, government officials are again minting money in the name of flood relief operations in different parts of the state,’ he pointed out.
Vij also demanded introduction of MLA Local Area Development (MLALAD) fund in Haryana.
‘The state government must introduce an MLALAD scheme on the pattern of the MPLAD scheme. If the state government does not work in this direction then I will move high court,’ said Vij.
