Opposition Samajwadi Party is likely to stall the proceedings of the Assembly during the brief monsoon session starting on Thursday.
The SP alleged that its senior leader and Lok Sabha member from Rampur, Mohammad Azam Khan, was being hounded by the Yogi Adityanath government ever since it came to power in March, 2017, and over two dozen FIRs had been lodged against him and officials of Jauhar University.
Khan is the promoter of a the private university in Rampur and the FIRs have been lodged against him by Rampur district administration for forcibly occupying land of over two dozen farmers for the university.
Sources in the SP said the party would also corner the Yogi government over deteriorating law and order and a spurt in hate crimes against minority community.
The sources said that the SP would not allow smooth passage of Finance Bill for the first supplementary budget for the current fiscal and other legislative businesses to be tabled by the government in the Assembly.
As it is, there will be no business in the House on Thursday and the Assembly will adjourn after obituary references for former MLAs.
Also, SP MLAs would later stage a dharna at the statue of Chaudhary Charan Singh in front of Vidhan Bhawan.
A meeting of SP MLAs was held in Lucknow on Wednesday to chalk out a strategy for the monsoon session and issues to be raised during the session.
Leader of opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary said the Yogi government had lost control over bureaucracy and police administration. He said that party legislators were unanimous in their view that the Yogi government had failed to deliver on all fronts, particularly law and order.
“After Lok Sabha elections and the formation of Narendra Modi government at the Centre, there was general expectation that the state government would focus on law and order and accelerate development process. The opposite has happened and sharp deterioration in law and order has been witnessed and there is a fresh spate of hate crimes and lynchings against the minorities,” Chaudhary said.
Samajwadi Party is the largest opposition party in the Assembly with 47 members against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s 302, while in the Legislative Council the party is in a majority with 55 members in the 100-member house.
One SP MLA, Nitin Agarwal, has defected to the BJP while Shivpal Singh Yadav, uncle of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, has turned dissident and formed his own outfit, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia).
On the eve of the monsoon session, a senior SP leader said that party leaders were confident that they had enough strengthen in both Houses to stall the proceedings.
The leader said that the entire state was reeling under deteriorating law and order and SP workers and leaders were being implicated in false cases by the present BJP government.
