Amid allegations that police personnel misbehaved with former Haryana Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda and other Congress MLAs during their protest march towards Haryana Vidhan Sabha, the issue has been referred to the Privileges Committee of the State Legislature for inquiry.
During the session, Congress MLAs lodged a strong objection for being stopped by police personnel and a notice of breach of privilege was given in the House.
Referring to the incident, Hooda said this has never happened to me. A police personnel stopped me and did not let the MLAs move towards the Vidhan Sabha. I will not name anyone but I demand strong action in the matter, he said while speaking in the House.
On this, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta decided that the matter will be referred to the Privileges Committee of the State Legislature for investigation and accordingly, action will be taken against the guilty.
The Congress MLAs led by Hooda had marched on foot to the Vidhan Sabha protesting against the issues of paper leak scam, atrocities on farmers, rising unemployment, inflation and rising crime graph in the state. During the march towards the premises of Vidhan Sabha, the Congress MLAs had engaged in a heated argument with police personnel after they were stopped.
Earlier, the party MLAs raised slogans against the BJP-JJP government and raised placards and balloons with slogans like 'Scam ki baat hai, BJP-JJP sarkar hai', 'paper leak ki gold medalist sarkar', take back the cases filed against farmers. Hooda while talking to the mediapersons said the present government is trying to suppress all the scams including liquor, registry, mining, electricity meter and paddy purchase.
HOUSE CONGRATULATES OLYMPIC MEDAL WINNERS
The State Assembly on Friday congratulated all the sportspersons from the state who represented the country in Tokyo Olympics-2020.
Leader of the House and Chief Minister Manohar Lal moved a resolution in this regard. Speaking in the House, the Chief Minister especially congratulated the players who brought laurels to the country and the state by winning medals.
Congratulating the sportspersons, LoP Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanded that the Olympic medal winners should be given proper post and honours by the government. “The State Government should recommend for Neeraj Chopra to be given the post of Honorary Colonel in the Army. Ravi Dahiya, Bajrang Punia and hockey players should be directly appointed as DSPs. Along with this, Rs one crore should be given to all the Olympic participants of the state as incentives,” he demanded.
Earlier, the Chief Minister said that the House is proud that this time 30 players out of 127 players who participated in the Olympics were from Haryana. The House takes special pride in sharing that out of seven medals, three were bagged by State players.
This House congratulates Neeraj Chopra, gold medalist in javelin throw, silver medalist wrestler Ravi Dahiya and bronze medalist wrestler Bajrang Punia, said the Chief Minister.
MONSOON SESSION TO CONCLUDE ON AUG 24
Speaker Gian Chand Gupta on Friday said that the session which began on Friday will conclude on August 24. After the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee, it has been decided that the session will continue till August 24. It will be extended by another day only if any legislative business is left, Gupta told the mediapersons.
The Speaker informed that the MLAs will be allowed to raise various issues during the zero hour. Question hour would be carried on all the three days of the session. Apart from this, one-hour will be reserved for calling attention every day during the monsoon session. On the issue of adjournment motion on recruitment paper leak, the Speaker said that the State Government will introduce a new law during this session to prevent such leaks in the future.
TRIBUTES PAID TO PROMINENT PERSONALITIES
Haryana Assembly on Friday paid rich tributes to former Ministers, freedom fighters and martyrs of the state, who lost their lives during the inter-session period. The Chief Minister Manohar Lal and all the members of the House observed two minutes of silence and prayed to Almighty to grant peace to the departed souls.
Speaker Gian Chand Gupta, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala and LoP Bhupinder Singh Hooda paid tributes and read out the obituary resolutions. These included former Governor of Haryana Jagannath Pahadia, former Vidhan Sabha Speaker Satbir Singh Kadian, former Minister and Minister of State Kamla Verma, former MLAs, freedom fighters and martyrs of Haryana and close relatives of members of Haryana Vidhan Sabha. The members of the House also paid rich tributes to Corona warriors, who lost their lives due to COVID-19 pandemic.
The House also placed on record its deep sense of sorrow on the sad demise of ‘Flying Sikh’ Milkha Singh and Gulshan Khattar, brother of Chief Minister.
Referring to the ongoing farmers’ agitation against central farm laws, Hooda paid tributes to those farmers who lost their lives and demanded that the House should also place on record its deep sense ofsorrow on the death of farmers during this agitation. The request was later accepted by the Speaker.