Orissa assembly starts tomorrow. UPA injsutice regarding an IIT in Orissa will be a major issue.
June 1st, 2007
The coming assembly session of Orissa starts tomorrow. Various newspapers report that UPA injsutice regarding an IIT in Orissa will be a major issue in this session. Following are some excerpts.
1. Statesman:
The performance of UPA government at the Centre vis-Ã -vis allocations to Orissa is expected to hold centre stage during the budget session of the Assembly commencing here tomorrow.
Ruling BJD-BJP, which has been raising the hackneyed Central neglect theme in recent times, has decided to move a motion for discussion on the subject as well as one on price rise. Denying an IIT to Orissa, meagerly allocations under the Rajiv Gandhi Vidyutikaran Yojana and KBK programme are some of the issues with which the ruling combine is training its guns on the UPA government and the Congress party.
2. Telegraph:
On the other hand the BJD-BJP legislature party made it clear that they would continue to deplore the “step-motherly†attitude of the Centre towards Orissa.
Legislators of the ruling BJD-BJP and Opposition Congress today met separately at the Assembly to chalk out strategies a day before the commencement of the state Assembly Budget session.
Parliamentary affairs minister Raghunath Mohanty said the BJD-BJP alliance would bring two motions to be discussed in the second-half of the session.
“We will raise the issue of a special package for Orissa in view of the ill treatment and step-motherly attitude to Orissa in all matters. Take a look at the issue of setting up an IIT in Orissa or meagre Central funds for rural electrification,†he said.
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1. sanjay kumar yadav | June 4th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Its appalling that how a responsible government at the centre can do a volte-face on its initial stand of setting up a green-field IIT in Orissa. Now its a passe,time and again Orissa’s interest has been ignored.But the question is,who should be hold responsible to this act of injustice, meted out to the people of Orissa.
Well for this the union government and the state congressmen are equally, resposible.
congressmen shouldn’t forget that they are representing their people’s interest and not some dirt politik.They should cut accross party politics and unanimously,fight to regain.