The Opposition Congress party has become belligerent on the State Government for convening brief Budget session. Demanding that the session should be of at least 15 days, the party has warned that its workers would hold a protest march to Gairsain on March 3 if the session is not extended.
Addressing the media persons at the state headquarters of the Congress party on Monday, the deputy leader of the Congress legislature party in state assembly, Karan Mahra questioned the short duration of the budget session of Uttarakhand assembly and said that state government is doing formality with a brief session. He said that if the sessions of the assembly are organised as per the norms then the MLAs can put the problems of their areas in the assembly and question government. He alleged that the government is organising brief session as it is shying away from its responsibilities.
Mahra said that he has already requested the Speaker of Uttarakhand assembly Premchand Agarwal and leader of opposition Indira Hridayesh for putting pressure on the government on extension of the budget session.
Former secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Prakash Joshi said that the budget session is of 15 to 20 day duration even in the small states but in Uttarakhand the upcoming budget session is of only five days. He informed that the workers of the Congress party would meet all 70 MLAs on February 26 and 27 and handover memorandums to them requesting extension of the budget session.
On the strategy of the congress party in the upcoming budget session, Mahra said that the party would take up the issue of irregularities in the examination of forest guards and the hegemony of the district development authorities in the session. Terming Trivendra Singh Rawat government responsible for the irregularity in the forest guard examinations, Mahra claimed that it would not have occurred if the BJP government had taken action against the culprits responsible for similar irregularities in examinations conducted by the Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection commission in the past.