Terming the ‘drama of dharna’ inside the Assembly by the Congress party as “mockery of democracy”, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday alleged that the key Opposition party has miserably failed to perform its role on the floor of the House.
“Instead of insisting on the key issues of Punjab on the floor of the House, that too during the last session of the current regime, Congress preferred to enact a ‘drama of dharna’ inside the Assembly to catch the attention of media, which is highly deplorable,” said AAP’s Punjab convener Gurpreet Singh Ghuggi.
Entire Punjab has witnessed, how Congress failed to engage the ruling parties into the meaningful discussion, rather Congress MlAs wasted public money by keeping themselves busy in enacting drama of dharna by staying two nights inside the Assembly, said Ghuggi adding that the Congress leaders even failed to impress media, which also highlighted them in their the ‘poor light’.
“It was the duty of Opposition parties to intervene, discuss and interrogate the ruling parties on its attempt to pass the 20 key bills in haste…Congress’ behaviour during the session indicates its involvement in the tacit (secret) understanding with Akalis to enable them to pass their bills in a smooth away,” he said.
Ghuggi said that even the draconian Prisons (Punjab Amendment) Repeal Bill was also passed by the Assembly without any discussion. “The bill is aimed to let loose the criminals right before the Assembly elections under the garb of ‘parole’ to create fear among voters by Akalis,” he said.
“We don’t have any objection on the release or granting parole to the genuine release of prisoners, but we apprehend that in the garb of this, Akalis want to create terror among voters”, Ghuggi said while quipping that why this initiative was being done right before the elections not earlier.
Taking on Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh for making ‘hue and cry” on the issue of Khalsa University in the media, Ghuggi said that in the Assembly, Congress MlAs did not utter even a single word to oppose the Bill allowing enactment of Khalsa University.
Referring the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report regarding grave violations of norms committed by the State Government while sanctioning private universities in the State, Ghuggi said that this was a serious issue and needed serious discussion.