Samajwadi Party members on Tuesday once again created uproar in the Vidhan Parishad over doubling the income of farmers and also staged a walk-out.
Later, the SP members also raised the issue of large-scale irregularities in recruitment drives and came into the well of the House, raising slogans against the government which led to adjournment of the House for a brief period.
On charges of SP members that famers were cheated in the name of increase in their income, the government made it clear that the annual income of farmers in Uttar Pradesh had almost doubled in the last eight years.
The members of the opposition, particularly SP MLCs, created a ruckus and accused the government of not doing anything for farmers. When the government remained adamant on its stand and said that income of farmers had now doubled, the SP members created uproar and staged a walk-out from the House.
Samajwadi Party MLC Ashutosh Sinha asked the first question of the question hour. He asked the agriculture minister what was the income of farmers in the state in the year 2014 and what the income of the farmers was today.
In response to this, Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi said that according to the data presented on the Doubling Farmers Income Volume 2, page 27, prepared at the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, the average annual income of farmer household of Uttar Pradesh was Rs 52,731 in 2014-15. He said that according to the status of agricultural families in rural India and the assessment of land and livestock of families in 2019, prepared by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, the average annual income of the farmer household in July 2018 and June 2019 was Rs 96,732. Later, the agriculture minister claimed that the income of farmers had doubled during this period.
The SP members, however, were not convinced with his reply and they started making an uproar and staged a walk-out from the House.
Later, through an adjournment notice, SP members Lal Bihari Yadav, Swami Prasad Maurya, Dr Man Singh Yadav, Ashutosh Singh, Naresh Uttam demanded a debate on large-scale irregularities in the recruitment drives conducted by the state government. They also questioned the development in the field of powerloom industries besides providing cheap electricity at flat rate to weavers.
The government denied the charges and claimed that all the recruitments were carried out without any irregularity. Agitated with the government’s reply, the SP members first raised slogans against the government and later came into the well of the House, forcing the chairman to adjourn the proceedings for 15 minutes from 1 pm.
Proposal passed to make Shaheed Path six-lane
About 19-kilometre-long 4-lane Shaheed Path will be widened to six lanes. The crowd is increasing on the Shaheed Path from Ayodhya road to Kanpur road. This issue was raised by Bharatiya Janata Party MLC Mukesh Sharma in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council on Tuesday. Regarding this, the chairman of the legislative council directed the government to take a positive decision in this regard. It is believed that the work on this can start very soon.
Last year, on many occasions, the problem of jams on Shaheed Path came to the fore. Especially during the swearing-in ceremony of the Bharatiya Janata Party government, during international matches held at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium and recently during the Global Investors’ Summit, the Shaheed Path was jammed several times. After this, the demand for the widening of the Shaheed Path was constantly being raised. This demand was raised by MLC Mukesh Sharma of BJP on which Chairman Kunwar Manvendra Singh said that the House was sending this demand to the government.