On last day, Haryana assembly clears 10 Bills

CHANDIGARH: Four INLD MLAs staged walkout over the issue of Satluj Yamuna Link (SYL). Meanwhile, several legislators raised issues related to their constituencies during the last day of the current session of Haryana assembly here on Tuesday.
In all, the House passed 10 bills in final minutes before speaker Kanwar Pal announced the adjournment of the session sine die.Though, opposition MLAs had been critical of CM Manohar Lal Khattar and his team during the session, but they were all praise for the speaker.

The Tuesday’s sitting opened with question hour where health and sports minister Anil Vij, parliamentary affairs minister Ram Bilas Sharma and social justice and empowerment minister Krishan Kumar Bedi and urban local bodies minister Kavita Jain addressed the House.
Vij talked at length about the state’s sports policy, Bedi presented comparative data related to beneficiaries of oldage pension registered during the Congress regime as well as BJP regime.
SAD MLA Balkor Singh and Assandh MLA Bakshish Singh spoke in Punjabi in the House and proving to be exceptions kept their speeches short.
BJP Panipat Rural MLA Mahi Pal Dhanda, Ambala City MLA Aseem Goel, MLA Shyam Singh Rana and Gurgaon MLA Tej Pal Tanwar reacted to the oppositions attack on government by targeting the Congress for its stand on the debate on Article 370 in Parliament.
INLD MLAs, headed by Abhay Chautala, staged the symbolic walkout while expressing dissent over the reply by CM Manohar Lal Khattar on the issue of SYL.
Some of the MLAs like Pirthi Singh of INLD, Lalit Nagar and Anand Singh Dangi of the Congress said the announcements made by Khattar could not change the conditions on the ground. Dangi gave example of CM’s native village Nindana in Rohtak which was adopted by Rajya Sabha MP and then Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu.
Sidelights:
— CLP leader Kiran Choudhry could be seen getting into a verbal tussle with BJP MLAs as and when they referred to the Congress in Centre and the state.
— Education minister Ram Bilas Sharma and former speaker Raghbir Singh Kadian were too seen with arguing with each other. The two, however, continued to entertain the House with their jokes.
— Congress MLAs thought that they would have some interesting moments when speaker asked Bimla Chaudhary, BJP MLA from Rao Inderjit group, to speak about her constituency. Bimla had in the past accused the CM of ignoring her and other supporters of Rao Inderjit Singh. On Tuesday, however, she praised the CM and his team for “development in her constituency”.