BJP lawmakers play opposition

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BJP lawmakers play opposition

Thursday, 20 September 2018 | PNS | Dehradun

In a role reversal, members of the Treasury benches put the Ministers on the hot seat by darting pointed and well-thought-out questions while the Opposition lawmakers chose to amuse themselves by the visible discomfiture of the Government.   

The ruling party lawmakers made the Ministers baffled as they flung questions on a wide range of issues from seat reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Other Backward Castes (OBC) in the urban local bodies (UPB) to sound pollution, pending cases of compensation in the human- wild  life conflict  and felling of Pine trees. Compounding the woes of the nonplussed Ministers, the ruling party members refrained from rushing to the rescue of the troubled Government when the Opposition members cornered the Government on the emotive and electorally important issue of demolition drive.

BJP member Deshraj Karanwal asked the Government to clarify on the matter of the reservation status to SC, ST and OBC in the urban local bodies. The Urban Development Minister Madan Kaushik said that the reservation is provided according to the relevant act and things are decided by taking into account the criteria of population of these sections. The member, however, looked far from satisfied by the ‘evasive’ reply. With two other BJP lawmakers Chandan Ram Das and Suresh Rathore supporting him, he demanded the Government to increase the quantum of reservations to the SC, ST and OBC in ULBs.  Chandan Ram Das looked agitated on the matter at some point of time, prompting the Opposition members to ask him to stand up and march to the well of the House by way of registering his protest.

The Congress members rushed to the well of the House to make the agitated BJP MLA to follow suit. However,  Chandan Ram Das stood his ground and refused to toe the Congress line. But what happened was enough to leave the ministers on edge.

Similar embarrassing situation for the Government came up when BJP legislator from Salt, Surendra Singh Jeena triggered sensation by claiming that officers are providing wrong information to the Ministers, something which left the Forest Minister Harak Singh Rawat puzzled.

Senior BJP member Munna Singh Chauhan tore into the Forest Minister Harak Singh Rawat on the report of Forest Research Institute (FRI) on Pine forests.

Inspired by the treasury bench throwing a dare to its own Government to rise up to the occasion, a BJP MLA was heard saying to the Congress legislators jestingly that they are acting as the real Opposition, a role which the Congress lawmakers are incapable of.

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