Appropriation Bills passed amid ruckus over BJP MLA’s remarks

Patna: While the opposition members on Monday created noisy scenes over BJP MLA Kumar Shailendra calling the Muslim minority sections as anti-national early in the House debate on the appropriation Bills for the third supplementary budget pertaining to the panchayati raj and the overall state budget for 2021-22, the assembly finally passed them by voice.
Deputy CM Tarkishore Prasad moved the appropriation Bill regarding the third supplementary budget for 2021-22 worth Rs 7,894.26 crore, ending March 31 this year.It included Rs5,802.91 crore as scheme (plan) budget, Rs2,087.97 97 crore as committed expenditure and Rs3.36 crore as state share for central sector schemes.Panchayati raj minister Samrat Chaudhary moved the appropriation Bill pertaining to his department’s demand worth Rs 644.22 crore, which was part of the overall third supplementary budget for 2021-22.
Giving the government’s reply, Samrat said the department would take up the construction of 3,000 Panchayat Sarkar Bhavans in the state during 2022-23 and appealed to the members to help in identifying the plots of land for the purpose. Earlier, while participating in the debate, Shailendra said the opposition members had neither any interest in the state’s development nor in the developmental activities going on in the panchayats. He also said the Muslim minority sections were anti-national, because they have refused to sing the national song ‘Vande Mataram’.
This opposition members immediately entered the well of the House, demanding an apology from Shailendra on the floor of the House.
When Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha, after sending the angry opposition members to their seats, asked deputy CM Prasad to make the government’s statement on it, he explained that what Shailendra had said was not an aspersion on anyone’s religion.