Greater Kashmir
SYED AMJAD SHAH
Jammu, Mar 29: Accusing the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of adopting a `vindictive’ approach towards the opposition and taking the House non-seriously, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Monday declared that the party’s legislators would boycott the proceedings of the state legislator for rest of the session.
“Keeping in view the non-serious and juvenile approach of Chief Minister, our party has decided not to attend the proceedings of House for the reset of the session”, former deputy Chief Minister and senior PDP leader, Muzaffar Hussain Baig told media persons, soon after his party staged a walkout from the assembly today.
“House has become a ‘Dewan Khana’ of the chief minister”, Baig said adding it was unfortunate that the chief minister was showing non-serious attitude towards the day-to-day business of the assembly.“What is the fun of attending the proceedings of the Assembly when the Chief Minister who is leader of the House is more concerned about playing games on his cell phone instead of taking interest in the proceedings”, Baig regretted.
“It is a mockery that the Chief Minister of a sensitive State like Jammu and Kashmir has been taking functioning of the Assembly so casually”, he said and added that the Assembly is the highest institution of the democratic system and the Chief Minister should not have taken the proceedings so lightly.
Coming down heavily on the chief minister for not responding to the important issues being raised in the House, Baig said, “Due to the casual approach adopted by the government, we have decided that our party would not attend the rest of the budget session”.
He said that PDP has raised important issues like release of funds and additionalties to the constituencies being represented by the PDP MLAs. “However, we are not getting any response from the Government every time we raise the issues of public importance”.
“It has become policy of the government to discriminate with some specific areas for political reasons”, he said.
Charging the government with adopting discriminatory policies in releasing additionalties, he said that instead of working in a democratic manner, attitude of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is “totally autocratic.”
“What to say of releasing additionalties for the development of the constituencies represented by opposition especially by the PDP, the Chief Minister even threatened not to release funds to the state’s areas represented by PDP MLAs”, he said.
“The money with the state government is not ancestral property of any public representative including the chief minister”, Baig said and added that it is the public money and is to be used for the public welfare.
Mufti joins walkout
Former Chief Minister and PDP patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed joined his party legislators, here Monday, to stage a walkout from the assembly over withdrawal of security to Ex-MLA Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Mir.
Mufti arrived in the House, a minute before, his party colleagues were preparing for a walkout. He was seen proceeding towards his seat from where he immediately joined his colleagues to stage a walkout.
Though Mufti attended the proceedings of the House, several times, during the ongoing session, he avoided tojoin walkouts and protests, till today.
“It is a mockery that the Chief Minister of a sensitive State like Jammu and Kashmir has been taking functioning of the Assembly so casually”, he said and added that the Assembly is the highest institution of the democratic system and the Chief Minister should not have taken the proceedings so lightly.
Coming down heavily on the chief minister for not responding to the important issues being raised in the House, Baig said, “Due to the casual approach adopted by the government, we have decided that our party would not attend the rest of the budget session”.
He said that PDP has raised important issues like release of funds and additionalties to the constituencies being represented by the PDP MLAs. “However, we are not getting any response from the Government every time we raise the issues of public importance”.
“It has become policy of the government to discriminate with some specific areas for political reasons”, he said.
Charging the government with adopting discriminatory policies in releasing additionalties, he said that instead of working in a democratic manner, attitude of the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is “totally autocratic.”
“What to say of releasing additionalties for the development of the constituencies represented by opposition especially by the PDP, the Chief Minister even threatened not to release funds to the state’s areas represented by PDP MLAs”, he said.
“The money with the state government is not ancestral property of any public representative including the chief minister”, Baig said and added that it is the public money and is to be used for the public welfare.
Mufti joins walkout
Former Chief Minister and PDP patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed joined his party legislators, here Monday, to stage a walkout from the assembly over withdrawal of security to Ex-MLA Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Mir.
Mufti arrived in the House, a minute before, his party colleagues were preparing for a walkout. He was seen proceeding towards his seat from where he immediately joined his colleagues to stage a walkout.
Though Mufti attended the proceedings of the House, several times, during the ongoing session, he avoided tojoin walkouts and protests, till today.
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