Accusing the Congress of running away on a most frivolous excuse of party badges from a free and fair debate on development, progress and governance in the State, Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal on Monday said the Opposition had deliberately sabotaged discussion when the House took up the no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition.
Badal said that he had been deeply saddened by the manner in which the Opposition chose to disgrace democracy. “This was a very sad day. It seems that the Opposition was either totally non-serious or utterly unprepared to face the Government in an open and full fledged discussion on development.” said the Chief Minister.
Badal said that in a democracy the opposition parties desperately latch to any opportunity to discuss the Government’s performance. This was the first instance in history of a Government wanting a discussion and the Opposition running away from it,” said the CM.
“It seems that they had no confidence in facing the ruling alliance over the issue of phenomenal development in Punjab during the past ten years. Perhaps they had sought permission for a no-confidence motion only as a publicity gimmick and did not seriously believe that the Government would show such prompt readiness to accept the challenge. In the end, they were just inventing excuses to run away,” he said.
He said the Opposition refused to accept an opportunity to discuss its own motion because it knew that the ruling alliance would come out on top on the basis of concrete data and details on development in the State.