Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 22: National Conference MLC, Vijay Bakaya will bring a Breach of Privilege Motion against PDP MLC, Murtaza Khan who reportedly un parliamentary language against the former during a House Committee meeting on land accusation for industrial Estate Samba held in Summer Capital on July 18.
Confirming this, Mr Bakya said that he is under constant pressure from the Party High Command to bring Breach of Privilege against the PDP MLC for using un parliamentary language during the meeting with him on July 18 at Srinagar.
He said soon he will bring the Motion against Mr Khan as NC leadership has taken serious exception to the style of functioning of PDP MLC.
Meanwhile NC Legislature Party in Upper House has taken serious exception to the uncalled for behavior of PDP MLC, Murtaza Khan who had manhandled the NC MLC and former Chief Secretary, Vijay Bakaya.
In a statement issued here today the NC Legislators said that it is unfortunate that lawmaker has resorted to lawbreaking. “A Legislator is an honourable member of the House and is supposed to observe all the decencies of the system. The behaviour of Murtaza Khan is unfortunate and amounts to making mockery of his being an honourable member of the Council’’, the statement added.
The Legislative Party has demanded unconditional apology from Mr Khan and has also appealed the Chairman J&K Legislative Council to take strict action against him so that in future nothing of this sort happens.
The NC Legislative Party leader in Upper House Ajay Sadhotra also urged the PDP president to control their members. Their such actions are not going to bring PDP back to power, he added.
Besides Mr Sadhotra the signatories to the statement included M Y Taing, Devender Singh Rana, Ajatshatru Singh, Khalid Najeeb Suharwardy, Javed Rana, Aga Syed Ahmed, Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, Gh. Qadir Pardesi, Dharamveer Singh Oberai, Dr Bashir Ahmed Veeri and Master Noor Hussain.
Later reacting to NC Legislators statement, Murtaza Khan said that during the budget session, an issue was raised in the House that 796 kanals and 16 marlas of land for Industrial Estate Growth Centre Samba was being acquired in violation of laws and chairman constituted a House Committee to investigate the issue and also issued directions to concerned departments not to go ahead with land acquisition. The Committee was headed by NC Legislator Ajat Shatru Singh and besides him, Mr Bakaya, Ravinder Sharma and B A Magrey were its members.
The Committee held first meet at Jammu on July 12 and it issued directives to concerned departments to furnish the papers, which they submitted on July 17 and the next meeting was held at Assembly Secretariat, Srinagar on July 18.
Khan said while going through records I came to know that some orders for land acquisition were issued by Mr Bakaya in his capacity as Commissioner Secretary, industries some years back and “I told him that the propriety demands that you should not sit as member of the Committee but he lost the temper and said that don’t teach me propriety’’. The issue was later sorted out and the meeting was held smoothly, Khan added.
He alleged that by raising the issue after four days now indicated that it is a well thought exercise as the NC wanted to hush up the issue of land acquisition.
Follow our WhatsApp channel