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क्षमा करें, यह समाचार आपके अनुरोध की भाषा में उपलब्ध नहीं है। कृपया यहाँ देखें।
Sharanjit S Dhillon says other States also holding monsoon sessions and govt should not give excuse of pandemic to hold a one hour session
Says SAD wants discussion on river waters and commitment from Cong govt that it will not allow one drop of water to flow to Haryana. Says need to discuss other burning issues of the State also
Chandigarh, August 21 – The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today said Speaker Rana K P Singh had committed grave injustice as custodian of the Vidhan Sabha by rejecting the party’s request to extend the forthcoming one hour assembly session to a fourteen day session to discuss the burning issues of the State.
In a statement here after meeting the Vidhan Sabha Speaker at his residence, SAD legislative wing leader Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said it was shocking that the Speaker had flatly refused to extend the assembly session despite being apprised about the urgent problems facing the State and its people. “Never before has any government in the history of the State held a one hour session in the guise of a pandemic. The SAD apprised the Speaker that other States were also holding monsoon sessions for extended periods and that the parliament would also meet shortly and that the Congress government’s contention to hold a one hour session citing threat from COVID was bereft of logic”.
Describing the Congress government’s resolve to hold a one hour session as a murder of democracy, Mr Sharanjit Dhillon said the government had earlier also run away from holding full-fledged sessions. He said there was all the more reason to hold a session to discuss all emergent issues before the people considering the grave times. “The State is in danger of being robbed of its river waters and the SAD wants an assurance from the government that not one drop of water to flow to Haryana. We do not want a repeat of the old history when the Congress government in Punjab facilitated the construction of the SYL canal by Indira Gandhi at Kapuri village”.
The Legislative party leader said the party also wanted a detailed discussion on the Rs 5,600 crore revenue loss caused by the liquor mafia in the State as well as the subsequent death of 135 persons in the hooch tragedy. “We want to ask the government as to why it is going soft on the liquor mafia and why a CBI probe has not been ordered into the incident. We also want to know why the Enforcement Directorate is not being handed over case files regarding the illegal distillery busted at Ghanaur and why no action has been taken against distilleries who supplied spirit to the liquor mafia led by Congressmen. These are not only our questions but questions of Punjabis also who are shocked at the apathy of the government”
Mr Dhillon said the SAD also wanted a full-fledged debate on the sand mafia and why gunda tax was being collected by the mafia across the State. He said the high court had already ordered a CBI probe into the extortion of gunda tax in Ropar but as this practice was going on across the State the government should tell why it was not recommending a CBI probe to go into the entire issue. He said the SAD also wanted to ask why the government had refused to order independent probes into the seed scam, central ration scam and the most recent MGNREGA scam.
The SAD leader said every section of society was going through a harrowing time due to the policies of the Congress government. He said the poor were suffering with beneficiaries names being deleted from the atta –daal scheme. He said old age pensioners were not getting their dues. “Scheduled caste students are suffering because they are not being paid scholarship. As many as 50,000 SC students are not getting their degrees because institutions have declared they won’t release them till their scholarship money is received. Similarly the poor are unable to pay the huge inflated power bills which are being served to them”.
Mr Dhillon said the Congress government had not even spared government employees who were not being paid timely salaries besides not being paid Rs 4,000 crore Dearness Allowance dues. He said employees were being forced to accept central pay scales which were lower. He said the government had also decided to abolish 50,000 jobs even as it was refusing to release the sixth pay commission report
