Janjivan Bureau / Chandigarh : Manohar Lal Khattar lead BJP-JJP government in Haryana on Wednesday won the trust vote in the state assembly.While 55 members were opposed to no-confidence motion, 32 members supported it.
During the motion of no-confidence brought by main opposition Congress, Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda claimed the ruling dispensation has lost people’s trust.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, while speaking against no-confidence motion, said the Congress had tradition of “distrusting” every good initiative of the BJP government.
Khattar said the Congress was a habitual “no confidence” party. He said: “We will never earn the trust of the Opposition.”
He said: “The Congress has a culture of mistrust. Doubts everything from surgical strikes, EVMs to vaccine,” adding that, “No confidence is meaningless because the Congress MLAs knows that we have the numbers.”
Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala attacked former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda for extending undue favours to the big corporates at the cost of farmers.
He alleged that farmers were forced to sell their land to the corporates at cheap rates under the threat of land acquisition during Hooda’s 10-year-old regime.
After the end of the Question Hour, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta admitted the notice of no-confidence motion against the Council of Ministers and reserved two-hour for discussion on it.
“I have received a no confidence motion from the Leader of Opposition (Hooda) and 27 other Congress MLAs,” the Speaker said.
Moving the motion, Hooda, former chief minister and senior Congress leader, expressed want of confidence in the Haryana Ministry headed by Chief Minister M L Khattar.
He said in the House that the state government has “lost” trust of people.
Hooda requested the Chair that secret voting should be allowed on the no-confidence motion.
Touching upon the issue of farmers who are protesting against the Centre’s new farm laws, Hooda said the situation is such that ruling dispensation MLAs cannot even visit their constituencies.
“This government has lost the confidence of people. Their MLAs cannot go in their constituencies,” said Hooda, speaking on the motion.
On the farmers’ issue, Hooda demanded inclusion of nearly 250 farmers, who have died during their ongoing agitation, in the obituary references of the Haryana Assembly.
He said farmers from several states including Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana are sitting on various border points of Delhi