The Winter Session of Haryana Assembly, which will commence on December 17, Friday, is set to be a tumultuous affair, with the opposition parties Congress and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), geared up to confront the Manohar Lal Khattar Government on the issues of HPSC recruitment scam, unemployment, cases registered against farmers, among others.
The BJP-JJP Government is likely to face a tough time during the session on the issue of Haryana Public Service Commission recruitment scam.
Congress MLAs and INLD’s lone MLA Abhay Chautala have demanded an independent inquiry into the recruitment scam. Recently, a Congress delegation led by former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda had also met Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya and sought an independent probe into the HPSC recruitment scam of dental surgeons under the supervision of a sitting High Court judge.
Notably, HPSC Deputy Secretary Anil Nagar (HCS) was dismissed by the State Government after his arrest for allegedly taking bribe to manipulate marks of candidates for their recruitment as dental surgeons.
Leader of Opposition, Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the issues of HPSC recruitment scams, shortage of DAP and urea, law and order situation, MSP issue, cases registered against farmers, rising unemployment, inflation among others will be raised by the Congress MLAs during the Assembly session.
Congress Legislative Party meeting will be held on Friday before the beginning of the session to discuss the party’s strategy, he said.
Earlier, the CLP meeting was held on December 8 in the city.The Congress demands an independent inquiry under the supervision of a sitting HC judge into the recruitment scam, Hooda said.
Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said that the State Government is prepared to answer all the questions to be raised by the opposition during the winter session of Haryana Assembly.
On the first day of the winter session, obituary references will be made for those who have passed away in the intervening period between the previous session. This will be followed by question hour, zero hour and a calling attention motion moved by Congress MLAs regarding the recruitment of staff for varsities through HPSC/HSSC. Another calling motion attention regarding amendments in the recruitment procedure of teaching and non-teaching posts in the Universities in Haryana has also been accepted for the day.