India News | Himachal Assembly: BJP Attacks New Cong Govt over De-notification of Institutions
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Leader of Opposition in Himachal Assembly Jai Ram Thakur attacked the Congress government over the de-notification of institutions opened by the previous BJP dispensation, as the House met for the first time on Wednesday.
Dharamshala (HP), Jan 4 (PTI) Leader of Opposition in Himachal Assembly Jai Ram Thakur attacked the Congress government over the de-notification of institutions opened by the previous BJP dispensation, as the House met for the first time on Wednesday.
The protesting BJP members disrupted proceedings even before the newly elected members took oath and later walked out.
Before the oath-taking by members, Thakur raised the issue of de-notification of institutions and alleged that the attitude of the Congress government was vengeful. He demanded that it should immediately revoke the orders de-notifying the institutions opened by the previous BJP government.
The orders are illegal as the right to de-notify institutions rests with the cabinet which is yet to be formed, he claimed.
He demanded that the de-notified institutions should be opened and a review conducted if they should run or not. The opposition MLAs also raised slogans against de-notification.
Intervening in the matter, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said the newly elected MLAs should be administered the oath after which other issues could be discussed.
Protem Speaker Chander Kumar administered oath to Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, Deputy Chief Minister Mukesh Agnihotri, Leader of the Opposition Jai Ram Thakur, former deputy speaker Hans Raj and other newly elected MLAs. As many as eleven MLAs took oath in English.
After the oath ceremony, the BJP again raised the issue and walked out of the House.
Chief Minister Sukhu said that the government would think about opening the de-notified institutions as per requirement after reviewing and providing a budget and adequate staff.
He said that the previous BJP government opened over 900 institutions in the last nine months of their tenure, including 386 educational institutions and 584 other institutions, and running them would require Rs 5000 crore.
He alleged that community health centres have been opened with the deployment of compounders and schools with peons.
Later, interacting with reporters, Thakur said that the Congress government, by allowing a large number of supporters to sit in the visitors' gallery inside the Vidhan Sabha, had turned it into a public rally.
The former chief minister claimed that the new government has also de-notified a police post opened in 1952.
The BJP leader alleged that the state government was insensitive as it went ahead with the Abhar rally on Tuesday even after the death of an IPC officer on duty. PTI/COR/BPL
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