The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Delhi Assembly, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Wednesday termed the burning of the effigy of the BJP with the placard of ‘Operation Lotus’ stuck on it by AAP MLAs in Delhi Assembly premises as highly condemnable and said that the Arvind Kejriwal Government is adopting a dictatorial attitude with the Opposition while killing democracy.
Bidhuri has written a letter and shared a video of the incident with the Lieutenant-Governor (L-G), Vinai Kumar Saxena. In his letter he requested the L-G to take legal action by summoning a report from the Assembly Secretary in this matter.
Bidhuri alleged that for the fourth-consecutive day, the Opposition was not given a chance to speak in the Delhi Assembly. “There is no such instance anywhere in the world where the Assembly has been in session for four days without discussing any problem of the public, any issue or any plan related to the public has been discussed in it,” said Bidhuri, MLA from Delhi’s Badarpur.
Bidhuri said that Rs 77 crore are spent on the session of the Assembly and it is the hope and aspiration of the people that their representatives will sit together and find solutions to their problems and will make plans to provide them facilities, but the Kejriwal Government did not allow the Delhi Assembly to do so.
“AAP does not even consider it an appropriate forum to answer the questions of the public posed by the Opposition.
At this time the people of Delhi are questioning the Government over the liquor scam as well as the education scam, DTC scam and Delhi Jal Board scam.
The transport situation in Delhi is also in bad condition as 3,760 buses of DTC have completed their shelf life and are still in service, at the risk of the public's safety,” the LoP alleged. He said that the Opposition wants to discuss these public issues in the Assembly, and that is why the BJP MLAs have given discussion notices on various topics to get answers to public’s questions. “However, even after being accepted for discussion, they were not allowed to talk about these issues.
For four-consecutive-days, whenever the Opposition members requested a discussion on these subjects, they were thrown out of the House. It symbolises dictatorship and arbitrariness as well as a blatant murder of democracy,” said Bidhuri.
Bidhuri said that it is surprising that the MLAs of the ruling party are raising slogans in the House, staging a dharna and using abusive language, but instead of taking any action against them, the Opposition BJP MLAs are being expelled.