Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday claimed that the BJP-JJP combine enjoys a majority in the House.
Responding to Congress’ claim of bringing a no-confidence motion against the State Government in the Assembly during the upcoming budget session, the Chief Minister said that it is their right to bring a no-confidence motion against the government.
“We are in majority. The opposition is doing such an exercise as they are afraid of their sustainability,” Manohar Lal said while talking to the mediapersons here.
The budget session of the Haryana Assembly will commence from March 5.
Recently, the Leader of the Opposition in the House and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda had said that voices of dissent are being heard among the MLAs supporting the government and they will bring a no-confidence motion against it.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister also said that a Bill against religious conversion by force, inducement or through marriages solemnised for the sole purpose of adopting a new religion will be introduced in the Budget session. The Bill will be brought in which there will be provisions against conversion by misrepresentation, force, undue influence, coercion, inducement, marriage or any fraudulent means, he said.
On the ongoing farmers’ agitation against the Centre’s three farm laws, he said that farmers’ plan to raise the price of milk from Rs 50 per litre to Rs 100 per litre as part of the protest will fail their agitation.
He also termed the farmers’ agitation as a “political issue” with no justified demands.
The Chief Minister also ruled out the State Government’s role in the recent IT searches on the premises of Independent MLA Balraj Kundu.
“The state government has no role in it. The MLA had himself recently claimed that his business has become worth Rs 7,000 crore and this has come into the knowledge of the IT Department,” he said.