SAD, AAP disrupt Punjab Assembly on Bargari probe

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 5 

The Question Hour during the second sitting of the Punjab Assembly monsoon session on Monday was drowned amidst din over the Bargari sacrilege investigation.

Walking into the well of the House, the SAD protested against the rejection of their adjournment motion on the Bargari investigation. The AAP also joined in on the attack on the government, storming the well to protest against the closure report filed by the CBI.

However, Leader of the Opposition Harpal Cheema alleged it was a “friendly match” between the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government and the Badals on the Bargari investigation, with the Congress trying to protect the Badals. The AAP held the SAD responsible for the sacrilege.

Once the proceedings were disrupted, the SAD walked out of the House.

Earlier, to a question on paddy transplantation dates, Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh refused to advance the schedule from June 20 to June 1, as demanded by AAP MLA Kultar Singh Sandwan.

LIP MLA Simarjit Bains urged the Chief Minister to recover royalty on the river water being supplied to Rajasthan. However, the Speaker refused to entertain the point raised by Bains.

Punjab AG Atul Nada tweeted on the Kashmir issue: Unprecedented in India's legal history for a Bill of this magnitude to be moved in such  clandestine manner. #Kashmir is being reduced to a UT without following basic Constitutional norms, by a readily notified Presidential Order. It’s a mockery of the law and the Constitution.