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Patna,(BiharTimes): On the concluding day of the Budget Session of the Bihar Assembly Rashtriya Janata Dal MLAs on Wednesday went on warpath
demanding CBI probe into non-reconciliation of Abstract Contingent (AC) bills with Detailed Contingent (DC) bills worth Rs 22,575.37 crore, as reported by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) for the period ending March 31, 2011. |
In the morning they held demonstration outside the Assembly with posters and banners in hands. Later they entered the premises and trooped into the well of the Assembly shouting anti-government slogans disrupting the proceedings during Question Hour before the lunch break. The repeated plea by the Speaker, Uday Narayan Chaudhary, to take seats fell into the deaf ears.
The speaker refused to take up the Adjournment Notice by senior RJD MLA Samrat Choudhary but assured the agitated members of looking into the adjournment notice at an appropriate time. In the meantime, parliamentary affairs minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav was heard as saying that CBI inquiry are ordered for criminal offence while the CAG reports are looked after by the PAC.
The leader of opposition Abdul Bari Siddiqui said that he had been demanding a CBI investigation from the very beginning.
The deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi stood up to say that the Assembly session continued for full one month but the opposition never demanded any debate on AC-DC bills.
He said the Patna high court had already rejected the PIL on the CBI probe into the issue. The PIL is now pending in the Supreme Court. Let us wait for the SC ruling on the matter.
Anyway, in the CAG report the RJD has got enough ammunition to fire on the ruling NDA and thus, to an extent, settle the old score of fodder scam.
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