Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi: Bihar assembly election will be decide the faith of Narendra Modi government Land Bill. Firstly in a moral victory for Congress and other opposition parties, the joint committee on the Land Bill unanimously decided on Monday that the bill would not be tabled in the current monsoon session but in the winter session instead.
As MPs from parties like Congress, Left and Trinamool continued their opposition to proposed changes in the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill 2015, chairman S S Ahluwalia requested them to try to reach unanimity on the content of the committee’s report. Opposition members told him that “unanimous” was not a word that could be associated with the land bill report under any circumstances.
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As friction continued in the meeting, Ahluwalia suggested since there were too many contentious issues that needed to be resolved before the bill had a smooth passage through the House and since MPs were in no mood to relent, perhaps it would be better to postpone the report till the winter session.
His proposal received support across parties: BJD’s Bhratruhari Mahtab and CPM’s Mohammed Salim agreed immediately. Trinamool Congress, which had insisted that nothing short of a withdrawal of the Bill as demanded in a resolution passed in the state assembly was acceptable to them, also agreed to the proposal. Members from NCP and SP, however, had been in favour of the bill being passed in the current session of Parliament.
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The meeting was slated to discuss the three contentious clauses 6, 11 and 14 but they were never taken up. There were fireworks from the start when chairman S S Ahluwalia accused Congress members of “delaying tactics” at which Congress MPs including Jairam Ramesh, P L Puniya, Rajiv Satav walked out of the meeting. When other parties urged the chairman to retract the statement, he did so and Congress members returned to the meeting.
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As a member put it, “Of the three parts of the meeting, only lunch took place as per plan. The clauses could not be discussed, neither could a report be finalised because of the strident opposition of some members.”
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