People of Kerala won’t accept BJP: Pinarayi Vijayan
“The people of Kerala did not accept the BJP yesterday. They will neither accept them today nor tomorrow,” Pinarayi Vijayan said.
The budget session of the state assembly was on Friday adjourned sine die, seven days before schedule, amid opposition by the opposition BJP, however.
Parliamentary Affairs minister, Mukesh Agnihotri moved the resolution to adjourn the state assembly after today’s proceedings, mentioning that there was no agenda left for the budget session and that there were four holidays in a row from Saturday.
On this, BJP member, Ravinder Singh Ravi said that the BJP was opposed to it as the notification for the session was till April 7. He said that there were still some agenda and discussions on important issues left. Questioning the reasons on which the session was being adjourned sine die, Ravi said, “Is it being done because of the development of Delhi High Court rejecting the Chief Minister’s petition.”
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He said that it was wrong to adjourn the notified session mid way.
On this, Speaker, Brij Bihari Lal Butail said that the court has no role to play in the session. “It is within the right of the house and its members to run the session or to adjourn it. It had been done earlier also,” he said.
The Parliamentary Affairs minister said that the house runs with majority and urged the Speaker to go for voting for adjournment of the house.
As soon as the Speaker responded to it, the BJP members were on their legs and started raising slogans against the government.
Leader of opposition, Prem Kumar Dhumal later addressed a press conference and said it was highly undemocratic of the government to have adjourned the session seven days before the notified date. He said the government was fearful that the BJP would rake up the issue of corruption in the session after the development against Chief Minister in Delhi on a corruption case. The budget session of the HP assembly had started on March 1.
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