Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: The just concluded session of State Assembly, ignored the people’s concerns as the legislators gave priority to discussion on Gen (retd)V.K. Singh rather than grievances of the people.
Strangely, Gen V.K. Singh remained the dominant issue for NC-Congress and PDP legislatures in both the houses during the entire session giving the clear impression that legislators were obsessed by the former Chief of Army and therefore no serious business was discussed or decision arrived for the public benefit, BJP MLAs including Leader of its Legislative Party Ashok Khajuria, Party president and MLA Nagrota Jugal Kishore Sharma and MLA Suchetgarh Ch. Shyam told reporters here today.
They said it was a session to betray the public in a very camouflaged manner and give priority to self acclaimed esteem.
Ashok Khajuria clarified that he himself had moved resolutions to adopt the resolution passed by the Indian Parliament condemning the Pakistani Assembly’s resolutions and the resolutions on West Pakistan and PoK refugees but those were not entertained. He said that not only this, the adjournment motions and various important questions seeking replies from the concerned ministries were also ignored. It appeared that the coalition followed some concealed directives to side track the genuine proceedings and so they brought in the issue of Gen V.K Singh and kept it alive for the whole session as a result of which no proper business was conducted.
Jugal Kishore Sharma alleged that the session was an eyewash and no genuine business concerns were highlighted nor the questions earlier registered were allowed to be raised, so and so that the bills and resolutions were not also taken seriously. Turning towards his own bill to include Hindi as official language along with Urdu in the State and plight of the reserved categories, he said these were totally rejected. The resolutions on making provision of at least 12 gas cylinders and holding delimitation were also not entertained.
Sham Choudhary claimed that he wanted to draw attention on the bills, resolutions and questions regarding the border areas and rural population which also met the same fate. He said that the teaching and medical staff deployed in the border belt of his constituency has been attached to their places near their homes due to political and bureaucratic approach, causing problems for the common public, even this important issues was not allowed to be discussed.
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