CLP meet on Sept 16 to formulate plan of attack for legislature session

MANGALURU: The Congress legislature party (CLP) meeting on September 16 will formulate party strategy to confront BJP government in the short 8-day session of the state legislature starting on September 21. Congress has identified issues starting from mismanagement of handling pandemic in the state, riots in Bengaluru, legislations that the government brought in the form of ordinance, KPCC working president Saleem Ahmed, said.
The session will be stormy and will see Congress come out strongly against the government, Ahmed told reporters here on Sunday. “Party legislators have already submitted more than 1,300 questions to the government,” Ahmed said adding the party will thwart any move by the government to push through 28 bills that it has listed in the agenda without proper discussion. “We will press for discussion on all the above issues as well,” he said.
The government is yet to respond to a request from Siddaramaiah to extend the session by 10-days; Ahmed said adding the short session is a ploy to get concurrence of the legislature for the bills. “We will expose the government on the floor of the legislature by highlighting its failures of various fronts including its knee-jerk reaction to the drugs issue,” Ahmed said. The government has no concrete plan to tackle this major issue, Ahmed contended.
The government has also miserably failed to provide succour to people of Karnataka hit by the deluge last year even as they continue to suffer due to the monsoon this year. The party MPs who strut around as ‘Tigers’ in the state become purring cats in Delhi and do not have the wherewithal to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funds to handle the flood crisis. They have failed abjectly to highlight issues of Karnataka in Delhi, he noted.