Delhi CM Atishi arrives for the peculiar league of the Assembly connected Thursday. (Tashi Tobgyal)
The Delhi Assembly saw a heated treatment betwixt the AAP and the Opposition connected the archetypal time of a two-day Assembly league implicit the termination of astir 10,000 civilian defence volunteers posted arsenic autobus marshals for DTC and clump buses, with some sides yet supporting a solution to reconstruct their jobs.
The AAP MLAs deed retired astatine Lieutenant Governor (L-G) V K Saxena and the BJP, holding them for liable for the autobus marshals losing their jobs and their plight owed to a non-payment of salaries. Leader of Opposition Vijender Gupta alleged that the AAP authorities had betrayed the autobus marshals. He claimed that successful a missive to the L-G connected October 11, 2023, past CM Arvind Kejriwal wrote that “the close ineligible presumption whitethorn beryllium ascertained and till its determined, services of each civilian defence volunteers whitethorn beryllium terminated by October”.
In his reply, Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said that successful his letter, Kejriwal had besides sought disciplinary enactment against the officers liable for stopping the autobus marshals’ salaries. “The salaries of 10,000 autobus marshals were stopped successful January 2023 due to the fact that of officers successful the transport section who questioned the deployment of civilian defence autobus marshals, arsenic buses had CCTV cameras for security,” helium claimed.
A connection moved by BJP and AAP for reinstatement of autobus marshals successful DTC buses was aboriginal passed by the Assembly.
Meanwhile, Speaker Ram Niwas Goel announced the resignations and disqualifications of 4 MLAs, including 3 from the AAP.
Former person of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri tendered his resignation connected June 18 aft becoming Lok Sabha MP from South Delhi.