No-confidence motion against Haryana govt defeated

Wednesday 17th March 2021 07:13 EDT
 
 

Chandigarh: The no-confidence motion against the the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Jannayak Janata Party government led by Manohar Lal Khattar was defeated in the Haryana Assembly last week. The motion was moved by Leader of Opposition BS Hooda earlier in the day over the government’s stand on the three contentious farm laws of the Centre.

While the Congress-led Opposition had been slamming the government through the day in the Assembly for its alleged failures to address farmers’ issues over the three contentious farm laws, CM Khattar in his address accused the Congress of spreading mistrust and having “no confidence” in any institution when it’s in the Opposition.

Attacking the Congress in the Assembly, Khattar accused the Opposition of resorting to criticism for the sake of criticism. “Mistrust culture is an old Congress tradition. Though this mistrust can be seen within the party, with senior Congress leader PC Chacko leaving the party. Sometimes it's G23 or mistrust between Surjewala or Hooda sahab in the state,” Khattar said.

“’No Confidence’ is Congress’ culture. When the party loses polls, there’s no confidence in EVMs. It asked for evidence after the surgical strikes. Criticism for sake of criticism should not be done. If the Congress is in power, all is well, but if it’s the BJP, then nothing is,” he added. Speaking to the media earlier, JJP leader and Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala attacked the Congress and said that contract farming was introduced by Hooda in 2014.

“The Leader of Opposition (BS Hooda) agreed that they introduced contract farming in 2014 which exhibits their double standards and we will respond to that in the Assembly,” Chautala said.

Describing the government a minority, Hooda said that in the 2019 Assembly elections, the BJP failed to get the majority and it had to form the government with the support of the JJP (Jannayak Janta Party), which sought votes against the BJP. Referring to CM Khattar as Nero, Hooda said, “The chief minister is behaving like Nero when Rome was burning. The same thing is happening in Haryana.”

“The situation was bad to the extent that Khattar could not go to Panipat to unfurl the Tricolour on Republic Day and instead went to neighbouring Panchkula to escape farmers’ wrath,” Hooda said.

He had demanded secret voting on the no-confidence motion, which was rejected by Speaker Gian Chand Gupta.

Political observers said that the no-trust motion was a calculated move to embarrass the JJP, the crucial post-electoral coalition partner with the BJP-led government, which is supporting the saffron party despite claiming to be an outfit of a rural Jat-centric party with the farmers as its core vote bank.


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