CLP meet today

Raipur, July, 10, 2012

With state Assembly’s monsoon session scheduled to commence from July 12, the CLP leader Ravindra Choubey will convene meeting of party MLAs at his residence to frame strategy to grill the government in the House.

In the budget session that held in March-April 2012, the Congress had raised several issues in the House and attempted to mount pressure on the ruling party to respond, but in vain.

This time too, the party has done its homework thoroughly before the beginning of the monsoon session. The party will prominently raise the recent police-naxal encounter in Basaguda-Korsaguda in Bijapur district.

The Congress alleges that the encounter is fake and the government was responsible for killing of women and children during the incident. In this case the state congress had also constituted 12-member probe panel led by Konta MLA Kawasi Lakhma. The panel has submitted the report to PCC president Nandkumar Patel who in turn has forwarded it to the state unit incharge BK Hariprasada.

The report will now be presented before party supreme Sonia Gandhi. The party is expected to seek explanation from the government on the encounter. The party is also likely to produce in the House the evidences proving the women and children as innocent tribals.

Increased power tariff and inordinate power bills will be another major issue which the Congress would use to put the ruling BJP in back foot. For the past six months, the Congress has continuously been protesting hike in power tariff.

The party had also raised the issue in the House during budget session. However, now in the backdrop of increased power tariff and consumers complaining of excessive power bills, the Congress will once again demand from the government to rollback hike tariff.

The party will further take on the government on uterus removal cases that unearthed unethical practices done by the doctors to take benefit of the smart card schemes.

The other issues which will be raised in the House are coal block allocation, paddy being stocked in open during rains, black marketing of fertilisers and seeds, etc.