Advocating constructive debate in the House Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said Government was committed to extend helping hand to opposition parties to have meaning debate during budget session. In an all party meeting held here on Wednesday Yadav said that in the recently concluded Speakers’ conference here the political parties have advocated healthy debate inside the Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad.
“The time has come to translate our thoughts into action. We want that opposition parties should have debate on all issues. The Government is ready to extend all help to the opposition parties in this front. The debates help the opposition as well as the government. The government can change its policy at the last minute if opposition criticism is constructive,” he said. He said that all the issues being raised either by the opposition party or the ruling party members concern public and needs to be discussed threadbare.
Swami Prasad Maurya (BSP), Suresh Kumar Khanna (BJP), Pradeep Mathur (Congress) and Dalbeer Singh (RlD) attended the meeting. Earlier, speaker Mata Prasad Pandey sought help from all the political parties for peaceful conduct of the House. leaders of all the parties have assured their help to the Speaker and the Government. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Md Azam Khan, Minister for Handicapped Welfare Department Ambika Chaudhry and Textile Minister Shiv Kumar Beria attended the meeting.