Congress member Santosh Singh Saluja on Wednesday brought a Privilege Motion against Water Resources Minister Raghunandan Das in the State Assembly alleging that he misled the House by furnishing different information on irrigation on different days.
Raising the issue during the Zero Hour, Saluja said that while he had asked three questions to know about the percentage of land irrigated in Tureikela block in his constituency’s Kantabanji block, the Minister's data furnished in response to the separate questions were different. The Minister's figures of irrigated land were 26.9 per cent, 27 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively.
Saluja demanded that the notice be sent to the Privileges Committee for action. Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro said he was examining the notice.