Assembly attack: Opposition targets govt over rising price of vegetables
29 Aug 2013 5:08 AM IST
With the beginning of the question hour at 2.10 pm on the first day of the monsoon session of the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday, leader of opposition Vijay Kumar Malhotra and his partymen started shouting slogans against the government for the severe rise in prices of vegetables. This is the last session of the present Delhi Vidhan Sabha.
‘The Congress government is providing food grains to the poor with the Food Security Bill, but they should understand that the poor has to buy vegetables too at such exorbitant prices. The city Congress government has completely failed to regulate the price of onions in the national capital,’ Malhotra said. BJP MLAs carried onion and other vegetables in the house to protest. Other opposition MLAs such as Bharat Singh, Satyaprakash Rana and Pradyuman Rajput protested against poor water supply in the city, forcing the speaker to adjourn the proceedings for half-an-hour.
The house reassembled at 3:10 pm and BJP chief whip Saheb Singh Chauhan and MLA Krishan Tyagi raised the issue of discrepancies in the public distribution system (PDS) which is the basis of the Food Security Bill. BJP MLA from the Dabri area Pradyuman Rajput went into the well in protest against the water scarcity in his area. He was marshaled out of the house after repeated requests of the speaker to make him return to his seat failed to produce any result
Meanwhile, chief minister Sheila Dikshit claimed in the Assembly that her government has been working for people from across the city and has not taken any partisan steps. ‘The government is working in the interest of public. The Opposition is in the habit of misleading people. They have reinforced their efforts in misleading people as the elections are round the corner,’ Dikshit said. The chief minister was replying to arguments initiated by Malhotra on the issues of unauthorised colonies, JJ colonies, poor settlements and rural areas.
Replying to him, urban development (UD) minister Arvinder Singh stated that this is the first time that the UD department and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) have both utilised their entire allocations during the first six months of the year. ‘It is therefore baseless to say that the government has not spent any money for development work in unauthorised colonies and slums,’ he said.
He also made it clear that the provisional certificates to unauthorised colonies were issued prime facie taking into cognizance that the colonies are worth regularisation. Out of 1,639 colonies, only 1,239 were issued such certificates. The criteria was the colonies should have existed in 2002 and should have had 50 per cent built up area in 2007. To find out the percentage of built up area, an aerial survey had been conducted by Delhi Geospatial Data Centre.
At the first instance, 895 colonies had been regularised. The chief minister’s intervention helped in getting permission to undertake developmental works in all colonies which existed in 2002.
‘The Congress government is providing food grains to the poor with the Food Security Bill, but they should understand that the poor has to buy vegetables too at such exorbitant prices. The city Congress government has completely failed to regulate the price of onions in the national capital,’ Malhotra said. BJP MLAs carried onion and other vegetables in the house to protest. Other opposition MLAs such as Bharat Singh, Satyaprakash Rana and Pradyuman Rajput protested against poor water supply in the city, forcing the speaker to adjourn the proceedings for half-an-hour.
The house reassembled at 3:10 pm and BJP chief whip Saheb Singh Chauhan and MLA Krishan Tyagi raised the issue of discrepancies in the public distribution system (PDS) which is the basis of the Food Security Bill. BJP MLA from the Dabri area Pradyuman Rajput went into the well in protest against the water scarcity in his area. He was marshaled out of the house after repeated requests of the speaker to make him return to his seat failed to produce any result
Meanwhile, chief minister Sheila Dikshit claimed in the Assembly that her government has been working for people from across the city and has not taken any partisan steps. ‘The government is working in the interest of public. The Opposition is in the habit of misleading people. They have reinforced their efforts in misleading people as the elections are round the corner,’ Dikshit said. The chief minister was replying to arguments initiated by Malhotra on the issues of unauthorised colonies, JJ colonies, poor settlements and rural areas.
Replying to him, urban development (UD) minister Arvinder Singh stated that this is the first time that the UD department and Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB) have both utilised their entire allocations during the first six months of the year. ‘It is therefore baseless to say that the government has not spent any money for development work in unauthorised colonies and slums,’ he said.
He also made it clear that the provisional certificates to unauthorised colonies were issued prime facie taking into cognizance that the colonies are worth regularisation. Out of 1,639 colonies, only 1,239 were issued such certificates. The criteria was the colonies should have existed in 2002 and should have had 50 per cent built up area in 2007. To find out the percentage of built up area, an aerial survey had been conducted by Delhi Geospatial Data Centre.
At the first instance, 895 colonies had been regularised. The chief minister’s intervention helped in getting permission to undertake developmental works in all colonies which existed in 2002.
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