The political focus in Haryana would now shift to the Monsoon session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha commencing from August 8, which is likely to be a stormy affair with the Opposition Congress and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) ready to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) coalition government for its failure on issues like price rise, unemployment, corruption, fiscal mismanagement and various other issues related to public welfare.
Regarding preparation of Party for the upcoming monsoon session, Leader of Opposition and Senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda told ‘The Pioneer’ that Congress party will propose at least seven adjournment motions and nine calling-attention motions to hold a discussion on floor of the House on the issues related to unemployment, illegal mining, utilisation of panchayat funds, law and order situation in Haryana and also on Agnipath scheme. We will raise the issue of Haryana’s share in Panjab University at Chandigarh. The state government will be questioned on all these issues of public importance on the floor of the House.”
Senior INLD leader and MLA from Ellanabad Abhay Chautala said that the government will be answerable on several issues, especially the rising unemployment rate in Haryana. “The CMIE’s recent report claimed that the unemployment rate in Haryana was over 30 per cent. The chief minister’s statement refuting CMIE figures is condemnable,” Chautala added. “There are various other departments in which thousands of posts are lying vacant, as on date. The truth is that the unemployment rate in Haryana is rising phenomenally. The government recruitments that BJP introduced in the past eight years, majority of such recruitments are stuck in courts of law,” he added.
Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta had earlier announced that a glimpse of the e-Vidhan Sabha will be seen in the upcoming monsoon session as the members of the House will use tablets instead of reading from the heaps of papers distributed as part of Vidhan Sabha’s proceedings.
In July, after inaugurating the two-day workshop of National e-Vidhan Application (NIVA) at Panchkula, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had said that “although there will be hesitation” in adopting tablets initially, “slowly the MLAs will become proficient in using the technology”. The e-Vidhan Sabha, Khattar added, will also prove useful from an environmental point of view as the system will make Vidhan Sabha paperless, “saving lots of paper and trees”.
“E-Vidhan Sabha will prove to be a milestone. Today, the whole world is moving towards digitisation. If we want to move with the new generation, then we have to use computers and information technology. Through NIVA, we can see the functioning of not only Haryana Vidhan Sabha but Lok Sabha as well as Vidhan Sabhas of other states. Along with this, you will also be able to compare the work of other assemblies. Big paper bundles of bills, notifications, question-answers etc. to be introduced in the Assembly used to be carried, but now all these will be present on the screen of our tablet,” Khattar had said.