The Budget session of UP Assembly was adjourned sine die on Thursday after adopting the annual budget for 2017-18 fiscal and the related Appropriation Bills to the tune of over Rs 3.84 lakh crores.
Boycott of Opposition members during the last five sittings in the total of 11 sittings of the House was the highlight of the session. The Budget was tabled in the Assembly by Finance minister Rajesh Agarwal on July 11.
Oposition parties –SP, BSP and Congress members had started boycot of the House from July 18 in protest against comments by the Chief Minister while replying to the general debate on the Budget.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who was present during the last day of the House, announced to provide 100 hand pumps to the MlAs from rural Assembly segments and similar things to the urban MlAs.
Besides, each legislator would be allowed to select two villages for Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhaya Model village scheme. The MlAs from urban areas would adopt one Nagar panchayat and two wards of Nagar Nigam under Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya development programme.
The CM said that the government has launched several development and welfare schemes and the benefit of schemes to the people would be guaranteed if the legislators monitor their implementation themselves.
Speaker of the Assembly Hriday Narain Dikshit thanked all members for their cooperation for the smooth conduct of proceedings of the House. He regretted the boycot of proceedings of the House by Opposition members and termed it as ‘unfortunate’.
Dikshit said that the Opposition parties did not give credible reason for the boycott. Parliamentary Affairs minister Suresh Kumar Khanna also thanked the members and the chair for their cooperation.
This was the second session of the present 17th Assembly. The first session commenced from May 15 after the BJP romped home with a landslide victory in the Assembly poll.