Monsoon session begins today: From farmers’ compensation to collector rates, Opposition poised to take on BJP in Haryana
The session will be preceded by a Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting at 11 am, chaired by Speaker Harvinder Kalyan, to decide the session’s duration and proceedings.
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The BJP led by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini is all set to proceed with its agenda with several contentious bills that will be introduced in the session, beginning Friday. The Monsoon session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, beginning on August 22, is expected to be politically charged, with Opposition parties — particularly the main opposition Indian National Congress (INC) with 37 legislators — and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) gearing up to corner the BJP-led state government on multiple fronts.
The session will be preceded by a Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting at 11 am, chaired by Speaker Harvinder Kalyan, to decide the session’s duration and proceedings.
The BJP led by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini is all set to proceed with its agenda with several contentious bills that will be introduced in the session, beginning Friday. Saini also chaired a meeting of his party’s MLAs on Thursday evening to formulate the party’s strategy that will be adopted to counter the Opposition’s attack.
Although the Congress holds 37 seats in the 90-member House, it is once again entering the session without a formally appointed Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader, meaning the post of Leader of Opposition remains vacant.
Taking a potshot at the Congress, state minister Krishan Kumar Bedi and senior BJP leader Ramkumar Kashyap said the grand old party has been unable to pick a legislative party leader even nearly a year after the Assembly elections.
The Congress, led by former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, is set to raise demands for Rs 50,000 per acre compensation for farmers whose crops were damaged by excessive rainfall and poor drainage. The party will also target the government over a steep hike in collector land rates up to 150 per cent in some areas criticising it as fiscal mismanagement.
Additional concerns include inflation, unemployment, layoffs of skilled youth, ration card deactivations, and deteriorating law and order. The Congress is also likely to raise the issue of alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants in Panipat.
Meanwhile, the INLD, through leaders Aditya Devi Lal and Arjun Chautala, has submitted 10 Calling Attention Notices and 25 motions covering a wide range of issues including fertiliser shortages, poor crop compensation, land reallocation, the SYL canal dispute, vacant teaching posts, electricity tariff hikes, and failure of private hospitals under the Ayushman Bharat scheme.
The party’s legislators will also highlight drug trafficking, rising crimes against Scheduled Castes, GST scams, industrial distress, paper leaks, urban corruption, and farm loan burdens. The INLD has submitted multiple starred and unstarred questions to emphasise these concerns.
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