AAP’s senior leader and the leader of Opposition HS Phoolka on Monday said that the Government has murdered the democracy by not assigning even a single minute to the elected representatives to raise the issues of public concern in Vidhan Sabha.
Accompanied by AAP MlAs and lok Insaaf Party’s Bains brothers, Phoolka said that it was mentioned in the copies of schedule distributed to the members on Friday that debate on Governor’s address under vote of thanks would be held at 2 pm on March 28. “But the whole schedule was changed in morning today. There is no mention of debate in the revised schedule and the debate is postponed till the next session,” he said.
Phoolka said that the defense of Congress that the debate was even not held in 2002 when Congress came to power is a lame excuse and does not carry any democratic and constitutional point.
“It can be vulnerability of then opposition party SAD that it did not raise the voice against the unconstitutional step but AAP and lok Insaaf Party will oppose it this time,” he said.
Phoolka said that the main reason behind cancelation of vote of thanks was that Congress Government has no answer for the questions to be raised by the opposition and it preferred to run away from it.
“AAP seek reply from the government over the issue of government filing application in the court to scrap the case of a liquor paddler who was nabbed by the police on the directions of Elections Commission during elections in Bathinda for illegally carrying 1,25,000 liquor bottles. Court had earlier denied bail to him and sent him to jail but Congress government is shielding the drug paddlers after assuming the power,” he said.
Phoolka said that Congress government feared that AAP will ask about “unconstitutional appointments of 13 OSDs and giving ministerial ranks to five of them” so the voice of opposition was curbed.