Cong to move adjournment motion on law and order
Tuesday, 11/12/2012
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Chandigarh : The Punjab Congress Legislature Party will move an adjournment motion in the Vidhan Sabha session, that is starting on December 17, to force the government to discuss the law and order situation following the “criminalisation” of politics.
Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Sunil Jakhar said the party had decided to give due notice to the Speaker on the adjournment motion. “We feel the deteriorating law and order situation in the state following the subjugation of the police by Akali jathedars is the most pressing problem facing the people of the state and needs to the discussed in detail”. The Congress has drawn up a strategy under which it will primarily target Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, who holds the Home portfolio. Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh, who will also attend the session, said the party would take up the issue of "criminalisation of the SAD".
The Congress is keen to put the SAD-BJP alliance on the mat on key issues. Jakhar said the Congress would highlight the manner in which people had been "bribed" by the SAD prior to the assembly elections.
He said money diverted from various government schemes was given to beneficiaries (between Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000). He said a sum of Rs 45 crore had been given to various beneficiaries in the Chief Minister's Lambi constituency. Out of this, Rs 10 crore had been released prior to the enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct.
Jakhar said the Congress would try to expose the anti-urban bias of the SAD which had imposed property tax in the state and now wanted to lease out urban utilities to private parties. It would highlight SAD's double-speak on the FDI issue and demand a white paper on the "irregularities" in the distribution of the border area development fund.
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