Curtains came down on the first winter session of this Congress government here on Friday with the ruling party getting 17 Bills passed amid threats of disruption of the House proceedings by the Opposition BJP and Janata Dal (Secular) over political issues.
Though the winter session was expected to discuss the prevailing drought in the State and a plethora of issues affecting the Kittur Karnataka and Kalyana Karnataka regions of North Karnataka on which the Opposition was expected to attack the government, the proceedings were not stormy.
While the Opposition planned to corner the government over the issues of withdrawal of the consent given to the Central Bureau of Investigation in Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar’s disproportionate assets case and Housing Minister B.Z. Zameer Ahmed’s statement on the Speaker’s chair, the government successfully managed the business with both the issues not making too big a noise. The BJP also failed to corner the Congress over the law and order situation as the government deflected the attack by bringing up the North Karnataka debate as a deterrent.
