Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Chhattisgarh government survives no confidence motion


Gets 48 votes against opposition’s 37

Raipur, December 20, 2011

The Chhattsigarh government has survived no confidence motion moved by opposition Congress in Vidhan Sabha during the ongoing winter session. The ruling party got 48 votes as against opposition’s 37.
The House members who could not participate in the voting process were Ajit Jogi and his spouse Dr Renu Jogi (both Congress), Brahmanand Netam from BJP and Saurabh Singh and Dujram Boudh (both BSP).
Chief Minister Raman Singh said the people of Chhattisgarh had shown trust on BJP in back-to-back Assembly elections and his government was committed to give good governance. Denying corruption and other charges leveled by Congress on the government, the CM said instead his party did its job sincerely while in power despite little help from the Centre.
Replying on illegal mining charges leveled by Congress MLA Mohammad Akbar, the CM countered allegations on the Prime Minister terming him responsible for wrongly allocating 208 coal blocks in Chhattisgarh. “The Centre’s wrong decision cost the country dear as it incurred Rs 85000 crore loss,” he said.
On FDI in retail sector he said it would largely affect small shopkeepers. He said his government would never allow FDI in retail sector.
Speaking on the government’s achievements the CM cited example of the state’s public distribution system (PDS). “The Prime Minister, Union Finance Minister and Union Agriculture Ministers have praised our PDS. The Centre even wanted to adopt our PDS as prototype,” he said.
On the government’s relation with the media he said it had always been cordial. “My government neither interfered into the works of media nor tried to influence it. I do not have any doubt on media’s transparency. However, besides CM, I am a common man and I have every right to defend myself by dragging those to court who try to sully my image by leveling baseless charges,” he said.
Senior Congress legislator Nandkumar Patel interrupted the CM at several junctures during his entire speech. When the CM was speaking on FDI in retail, Patel and his fellow party member Dharmjeet Singh had long verbal spat with Parliamentary Affairs Minister Brijmohan Agrawal.
Earlier, the leader of opposition Ravindra Choubey in his speech flayed the government for selling water, jungles and lands of the state to the industrialists. He said besides naxalism, murder, rape and abduction cases were high in the state. The government’s apathy has led to human trafficking of tribal girls while the children of impoverished section are begging in places like Bangalore, he said. 

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