House to debate law & order, drought issues
May be it has a few months left in its kitty, but the Hemant Soren Government on the first day of the Monsoon Session presented supplementary budget of Rs 1,956.36 crore for the remaining months of current financial year.
The biggest gainer has been the Rural Development Department with Rs 761.02 crore and Panchayati Raj and NREP (Special Division) Department with Rs 416.44 crore. Finance Minister Rajendra Singh who is also holding Energy portfolio has made provision for Rs 110 crore for power sector. Keeping in mind rough days in store in the field of agriculture in the wake of weak monsoon the Government has proposed
Rs 27.6 crore for Agriculture and Sugercane Department. Amid all these a notable provision is for Election. The poll bound State has proposed Rs 110 crore for it which will mostly be used during the year-end Assembly elections.
Moreover, the House also saw members raising Chanho incident and demanded discussion over the issue.
BJP's CP Singh displayed a placard mentioning about the communal tension which has claimed one life and left injured many persons, including police personnel.
Several BJP members also sat on a dharna outside to highlight the incident. Speaker Shashank Shekhar Bhokta expressed anguish over the disturbance and said that Business Advisory Committee would meet later in the day to look into all such issues.
The Committee met after the House adjourned for Saturday and decided to hold a discussion on law and order situation on August 4 and on drought on August 6, which is also the last day of the Monsoon Session and at the same time may also prove the last day of the incumbent Assembly. In his inaugural address the Speaker also hinted about this.
"This would be possibly the last Session of the present Assembly. I got limited time to work as presiding officer of the House and I tried my best to deliver my duties," said Bhokta while mentioning about responsibilities of legislators as drought like situation was looming large over the State. He also extended his gratitude towards the new BJP-led Government at the Centre and those who got elected from the State for the lok Sabha.
The Speaker also gave validated merger of Jharkhand Janadhikar Manch and Rashtriya Kalyan Paksha into Trinamool Congress and recognised their legislators Bandhu Tirkey and Chamra linda as members of the West Bengal based party.
"They had applied in March 2014. I have got acceptance of Mukul Roy (TMC general secretary) on the matter and their membership in the party would be applied from retrospective affect," said Bhokta.
The House also expressed condolences over death of Gopinath Munde, Bangaru laxman, Ratu Maharaja Chintamani Sharan Nath Shahdeo, Bhukhla Bhagat, Tarakant Jha, Tileshwar
Sahu, Devi Prasad, Giriraj Kishore and noted actor Johra Sahgal. Grief was also expressed over Dumka incident that happened during last elections, accident on INS Sindhuratna, Chanho incident and deaths of kanwarias.