Oppn protest continues against Cong workers heading '5 guarantees' panels

Protests by the opposition BJP and JD(S) MLAs against the appointment of Congress workers to the committees overseeing the implementation of the government's five guarantee schemes, disrupted proceedings of the state legislative assembly for the second consecutive day on Wednesday.

- Press Trust of India

BENGALURU:

Accusing the government of "curtailing" the powers of the legislators by forming parallel committees with Congress workers as its presidents, vice-presidents, and members, to oversee the guarantee schemes, the opposition argued that money from the state exchequer cannot be used to pay honorarium to the party workers.

The protest began from the well of the House on Tuesday, demanding that the government dissolve all these committees. The opposition insisted that if oversight was necessary, then panels should be headed by the MLAs and not Congress workers, despite deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar's assurance that the cabinet would look into the matter.

As the assembly met on Wednesday, BJP and JD(S) members continued their protest from the well of the House.