Opposition flays Governor's address

LUCKNOW: Post lunch discussion on the governor’s address in the Vidhan Parishad drew flak from the Opposition and praise from the treasury bench.
Expressing his views, Raghav Ram Mishra of the BJP stated that all developmental activities had come to a halt in the districts and divisions which had been disbanded by the present dispensation. He slammed the law and order situation in the state and said killings, abductions etc had become the order of the day, while criminals were being given a free hand in jails.Mishra said that the former chief minister had veered towards dictatorship, the Samajwadi Party was totally in the clutches of big industrial houses. The MLC opposed the governor’s address.
Speaking in favour of the address, Bharat Tripathi of the SP said it was because of a favourable atmosphere created by the present government that big industrial houses had ventured to make investments in the state. He said the governor, in his address, had made a mention of the stifling atmosphere in the previous regime whose main objective was to forcibly occupy government properties as also those of other political parties.
Tripathi said his government was committed to the all-round development of the state. Opposing the address, Veersen Saroha of the BJP stated that the State Development Council was a big fraud committed on the state. He said when one industrial house would be developing colonies, then organisations like the development authorities of different cities and Housing Board would become redundant.