Delhi Assembly Session From Today, Likely To Be Stormy As AAP In Bitter Faceoff With BJP, LG Saxena

The sitting of the house is expected to be stormy as AAP may raise the issues of the appointment of MCD aldermen and the alleged interference by LG Vinay Saxena in the government's operations. 

The three-day winter session of the Delhi Assembly will begin on Monday amid the recent upheavals in the political corners of the national capital. Ruling Aam Aadmi Party and opposition Bharatiya Janata Party will come face-to-face for the first time since the mayoral election witnessed a halt in the MCD house earlier this month.

The sitting is expected to be stormy as AAP is likely to raise the issues of the appointment of MCD aldermen and the alleged interference by LG Vinay Saxena in the government's operations. 

The leaders of the AAP might question the LG VK Saxena on allegedly putting pressure on officials to stop the development work being done by the government of Delhi. The issue of the LG appointing aldermen to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), without seeking the recommendations of the city government, is also likely to be raised in the Assembly, PTI reported citing sources.

According to the business list, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia will be laying the copies of the annual report of the Delhi Technological University for the year 2020-2021, the CAG audit report on the annual accounts of the Netaji Subhas University of Technology for the period from 2009-10 to 2017-18, along with an action-taken report, in the House, the PTI report said.

He is also expected to introduce the Delhi Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2023, according to the List of Business of the House.

The Bharatiya Janata Party legislators demanded on Saturday that the speaker extend the Assembly session to 10 days and allow the Question Hour.

At a press conference, the BJP leaders, including Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, termed the Assembly session starting from January 16 "illegal".

He said, "Instead of calling it the winter session, the AAP government has termed it the fourth part of the third session to avoid holding a fixed number of sittings of the House." 

Bidhuri alleged that the AAP government, led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, is working in a "dictatorial and unconstitutional" manner, adding that the saffron party MLAs will urge the speaker to hold the session for 10 days.

The legislators want to raise the issues concerning their areas but the government has "taken away" their right to do so, he said.

"The government is running away from answering the questions of the MLAs. That is why it is trying to completely remove the Question Hour from the Assembly session," Bidhuri added.

Bidhuri said the BJP MLAs will raise several important issues, including air pollution, the city government's failure to clean the Yamuna river and the poor public transport system in the national capital, during the Assembly session. 

 

(With PTI Inputs)