Oppn leaders not allowed to speak, alleges Abhay

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 3

Senior Indian National Lok Dal leader and Ellenabad MLA Abhay Singh Chautala today accused the BJP-JJP government of doublespeak and said on the one hand, it wanted to run the state Assembly like Parliament, but on the other hand, the Opposition leaders were not allowed to speak.

Addressing mediapersons, Abhay alleged that despite being a senior member of the Vidhan Sabha, he was not given an opportunity to express his views and even when he spoke, neither the Chief Minister nor any of his senior ministerial colleagues was there to listen.

“The government’s attitude continues to be the same. I came prepared with details to expose it during discussion on the Budget, but after a while, I was asked to sit. When I started raising the issue of shortage of teachers in schools, they said my time was over,” he alleged.

The INLD leader alleged that the government had closed science classes in over 300 schools of Haryana forcing girls to travel 10 to 15 km to attend their new schools, but the BJP was least concerned about this.

He also expressed concern over lack of imports of active pharma ingredients from China in the wake of coronavirus and said the medicines were set to get costlier as the pharmaceutical industry would now have to import raw material from the USA.