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CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government will convene a special assembly session on April 5, but the agenda was kept open as it will be set on that day. It’s being speculated that Haryana’s move could be in response to neighbouring Punjab laying its claim on Chandigarh, the joint capital of the two states.
The new AAP government in Punjab held a special assembly session on April 1 and passed a resolution seeking immediate transfer of Chandigarh to the state, citing the Reorganisation of Punjab Act, 1966. Punjab’s move followed the Centre’s announcement that Central Service Rules will apply to employees of Chandigarh, which is a UT. In Haryana, where BJP is in office, politicians cutting across party lines had condemned the Punjab resolution and CM Manohar Lal Khattar convened a cabinet meeting. Speaker Gian Chand Gupta said, “Let the business advisory committee (of the assembly) finalise the agenda. What I can make out from the current development is that Punjab has acted unconstitutionally to pass such a resolution. We don’t know about the intentions behind the resolution.”
Haryana was carved out of Punjab in 1966 and the two neighbours have been at loggerheads over various niggling points such as, according to Gupta, the Satluj-Yamuna Link canal, division of employees, transfer of Punjab’s 400 Hindispeaking villages, 40 lakh acreage of water, share in Panjab University in Chandigarh and the assembly premises. Congress has called a meeting of its MLAs at former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s home to decide a plan for the assembly session.
Hooda had criticised Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and said: “This clearly shows the lack of respect for the constitutional affairs of the assembly. Mann as well as the speaker should have taken legal opinion before resorting to such moves. ” INLD’s Abhay Chautala and independent MLA Balraj Kundu have written to Khattar for a special session to discuss Punjab’s claim on Chandigarh.
The new AAP government in Punjab held a special assembly session on April 1 and passed a resolution seeking immediate transfer of Chandigarh to the state, citing the Reorganisation of Punjab Act, 1966. Punjab’s move followed the Centre’s announcement that Central Service Rules will apply to employees of Chandigarh, which is a UT. In Haryana, where BJP is in office, politicians cutting across party lines had condemned the Punjab resolution and CM Manohar Lal Khattar convened a cabinet meeting. Speaker Gian Chand Gupta said, “Let the business advisory committee (of the assembly) finalise the agenda. What I can make out from the current development is that Punjab has acted unconstitutionally to pass such a resolution. We don’t know about the intentions behind the resolution.”
Haryana was carved out of Punjab in 1966 and the two neighbours have been at loggerheads over various niggling points such as, according to Gupta, the Satluj-Yamuna Link canal, division of employees, transfer of Punjab’s 400 Hindispeaking villages, 40 lakh acreage of water, share in Panjab University in Chandigarh and the assembly premises. Congress has called a meeting of its MLAs at former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s home to decide a plan for the assembly session.
Hooda had criticised Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and said: “This clearly shows the lack of respect for the constitutional affairs of the assembly. Mann as well as the speaker should have taken legal opinion before resorting to such moves. ” INLD’s Abhay Chautala and independent MLA Balraj Kundu have written to Khattar for a special session to discuss Punjab’s claim on Chandigarh.
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