Congress MLAs oppose Governor speech in Gujarat assembly

Congress MLAs today opposed Governor’s speech in the opening hour of 2011 budget session of Gujarat Vidhansabha. Governor Dr. Kamla Beniwal had to cut short her speech. Speaker in-charge Shri Mangaldas Patel announced break after which the session resumed its work. Meanwhile Congress MLAs continued shouting slogans outside.

Congress MLAs were opposing Governor’s speech that was according to them ‘prepared by the state government to show rosy picture of the state which is actually different from the actual situation on ground’.

Congress MLAs were protesting self immolation incident of Kutch’s Rapar based farmer and RTI applicant. They were also protesting state government’s move to transfer tribal land to industry by allegedly making some changes in the present provisions. Leader of the opposition Shaktisinh Gohil said that the state government was not capable to pay salary to the teachers on time but wasting public money for functions motivated by the Chief Minister.