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Bidhuri lashes out at Mukhi

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"Giving misleading information on the status of NCP"

NCP MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri

NEW DELHI: The Nationalist Congress Party MLA from Badarpur, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, on Monday accused the Leader of the Opposition, Jagdish Mukhi, of spreading canard and giving misleading information over the issue of constitution of the Delimitation Commission for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and nomination of MLAs to the same.

Talking to newspersons, Mr. Bidhuri lashed out at Mr. Mukhi for giving misleading information on the status of the NCP. He said the BJP leader had wrongly stated that the NCP was not a recognised party. "Mr. Mukhi should know that the NCP is a recognised national party and that is the reason I was put on the Delimitation Commission for reconstitution of the Assembly and Lok Sabha seats in Delhi. He along with the BJP Chief Whip, Sahib Singh Chauhan, has got into the habit of presenting misrepresented facts inside and outside the Assembly but I seek to set the record straight,'' he added.

On Mr. Mukhi's grievance that the BJP was ignored and instead the Speaker, Chaudhary Prem Singh, had nominated Mr. Bidhuri for the Delimitation Commission, the NCP leader said that Mr. Mukhi should pose this question to the Congress that has two nominees in the Commission. Also Mr. Bidhuri said Mr. Mukhi had no right to talk of convention and precedents, as it was the BJP that first broke all precedents and conventions in the past. For instance, after coming to power in 1993, when in the entire country the post of the Deputy Speaker was being given to the Opposition party, the BJP decided to put up its own candidate for the post. Then while constituting the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), they broke the tradition of having an Opposition member as its chairman by nominating G.S. Bhardwaj in violation of all norms.

Similarly, Mr. Bidhuri said that two members from the MCD are nominated to the Delhi Development Authority. But after the elevation of Mahabal Mishra to the Delhi Assembly, the BJP instead of offering the vacancy to the Congress nominated its own member to the DDA in violation of all rules and regulations.

Mr. Bidhuri said he was on the Delhi Jal Board for the past two years and had again been nominated by Mr. Prem Singh. There was no precedent or written law that a member had to be nominated from the dominating Opposition party or any Opposition party. "The discretion is entirely with the Assembly Speaker and to question his decision is very unfortunate and needs to be condemned by one and all," he added.

He said the BJP had been grabbing the share of the independent MLAs in getting representations in the Public Accounts Committee, Estimates Committee and Public Sector Undertaking Committee but Mr. Mukhi and Mr. Chauhan were conveniently overlooking this.

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