Pandemonium prevailed in the Legislative Assembly on February 23 as BJP and JD(S) members continued their protest in the well of the House demanding that the government withdraw a resolution adopted on February 22 condemning the ‘step-motherly attitude of the Centre which is destroying the State’s economy by causing huge financial losses by denying it the rightful share of taxes, Central funds, and drought as well as flood relief’.
Leader of Opposition R. Ashok condemned the Congress government’s decision to bring the resolution in the House without prior discussion at the Business Advisory Committee meeting and without listing in the day’s agenda.
“The Congress government has every right to criticise the Modi government at the Centre outside the House. However, the passage of the resolution by the House would further escalate the confrontation between the State and the Centre, and the people of the State would suffer,” he said.
