SHIMLA: In the third day of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly session here, the opposition BJP MLAs staged walkout from Vidhan Sabha and staged protest with ropes and chains outside the Vidhan Sabha in support of their demand for debate on the “closing down of the institutions”.
BJP legislators shouted slogans, "Taalewali Sarkar Nahin Chalegi, Nahin Chalegi, Sukhu Sarkar Hosh Mei Aayo, Hoosh me Aayo”.
They put a chain and rope over them and sat on dharna outside the House.
The BJP MLAs led by the leader of the opposition in the house Mr Jai Ram Thakur later told the media persons outside the house that the present Sukhu Govt has locked the institutions without allowing a debate in the House.
He said the government has become synonymous with the “Taale Wali Sarkar”.
Instead, the government should have allowed the functioning of the institutions and review their progress, he told media persons.
Those institutions which are not in conformity of the norm the government should have thought over them rather than taking unilateral decision to stop them, Thakur said.
Thakur said that the BJP would not allow the mortgage of the interest with the people of Himachal Pradesh and would continue to stage protest unless and until the Congress government allow meaningful debate in the house on the issue.
On the other CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu had explained that the Jai Ram Thakur government had opened these institutions without budget provisions just to hoodwink the public to get votes. But the people rejected the BJP and voted in Congress, he remarked.
If these were to be operationalised, the government would need Rs 91000 Crore, CM had told in the House.
The present government inherited the 'financial mess', which was the doing of the BJP government, he had remarked.
Meanwhile CM Sukhu had also presented "supplementary budget demands of Rs 13141 Crore in the House yesterday, which was passed in the absence of the opposition BJP.
Out of this, Rs 11707.68 Crore is for the state schemes while Rs 1433 Crore for the centrally sponsored schemes are proposed in this budget demand.
