SAD targets Speaker over session duration, he says his duty to protect MLAs’ health
SAD legislative wing leader Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said "it was shocking that the Speaker had flatly refused to extend the Assembly session despite being apprised about the urgent problems facing the state and its people.
Speaking over phone, Rana K P Singh blasted SAD and said: "When about dozen of our MLAs, including one minister and deputy speaker (of Vidhan Sabha) is already suffering from this pandemic, it is the duty of the government and it is the duty of the Speaker also to see to it that nothing wrong goes. Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Friday said Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana K P Singh had “committed grave injustice as custodian of the Vidhan Sabha” by rejecting the party’s request to extend the forthcoming one-day Assembly session to a 14-day session to discuss burning issues of the state.
In a statement here after meeting the Vidhan Sabha Speaker at his residence, SAD legislative wing leader Sharanjit Singh Dhillon said “it was shocking that the Speaker had flatly refused to extend the Assembly session despite being apprised about the urgent problems facing the state and its people. Never before has any government in the history of the state held a one-hour session in the guise of a pandemic. The SAD apprised the Speaker that other states were also holding monsoon sessions for extended periods and that Parliament would also meet shortly and that the Congress government’s contention to hold a one-hour session citing threat from Covid was bereft of logic”.
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