The Bahujan Samaj Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party members staged noisy walkouts in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly over non-implementation of the new land Acquisition Act and the Government’s refusal to earmark funds for covering the subsidy of rural power tariff.
The BSP members first staged a walkout after PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav said during the Question Hour on Wednesday that the Government had accepted the new land Acquisition Act on January 1, 2014 but the rules and regulations were yet to be formulated. He was replying to a question raised by Dharampal Singh of the BSP.
leader of Opposition Swami Prasad Maurya said the new Act entitled farmers to receive compensation amounting to six times of the current circle rate if their land was acquired but the State Government was delaying it purposely.