For the first time in the history of Haryana Vidhan Sabha, a Saint addressed the MlAs inside the Assembly on Friday.
Jain Muni Tarun Sagar was invited by BJP Government to address the State MlAs inside the Assembly. During his address, Jain Muni spoke on issues including female foeticide, corruption, crime and terrorism.
Jain Muni also did not let go any opportunity to take a dig at the politicians during his address. While talking about politicians/Ministers, he said that politicians become invisible after being elected.
“I am not talking about you people... but other ministers in other states, I will talk about you in assembly session of a different state,” said he while referring to Haryana MlAs.
The Jain Muni also said the Chief Minster Manohar lal might be blamed for saffronising politics with the ‘Kadve Pravachan’ programme in the Vidhan Sabha. But, it is the purification of politics in real terms rather than saffronisation, he said.
Speaking on the issue of female foeticide, Jain Muni quoted wrong figures of sex ratio saying that there are 90 women per 1000 men, which was corrected by the Chief Minister saying it is 90 women per 100 men and 990 women per 1000 men.
Batting for government’s ‘Beti Bacho,Beti Padhao’ campaign, Jain Muni said that he had formulated a plan to check imbalance in the sex ratio which should be implemented at political, social and religious level.
At the political level, the government should decide that those who do not have girl child should not be allowed to contest elections to Parliament and the state assembly. Priority should be given to those having daughters. Te society should also decide that parents should not marry their daughters into families which do not have daughters. And, Saints should refuse alms from households or families which do not have daughters, he added.
He also blamed neighbouring Pakistan for sponsoring and spreading terrorism which would one day swallow it.
Earlier, the Chief Minister thanked Muni Tarun Sagar for delivering his address in the House as well as the Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki for accepting the invitation to attend the session. MlAs Ram Bilas Sharma, INlD’s Zakir Hussain, Congress’ Kiran Choudhry also thanked Jain Muni.