Cong walks out of BAC meeting in protest

Punjab Congress today walked out from the meeting of Business Advisory Committee of the Assembly to protest "non assurance" by the Speaker on their demands for including an adjournment motion over the Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal issue.
Channi said that "we had already given adjournment motion on the issue of SYL but the government is bringing a resolution on the same issue which is neither right nor ethical".
Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal should tell what happened to our adjournment motion which was submitted two days back, he said.
Channi, however, said, "we would participate in the budget discussion and governor address discussion".

"We have given our dissenting note on the proceedings of the business advisory committee," Chief of Congress legislature party Charanjit Singh Channi said.
Congress sought extension of the House session by two days or increase the sittings so that important issues could be debated but there was no assurance from the Speaker on this, he said.
"We have also listed 13 core issues, which needed to be discussed. We have also demanded in the meeting that one representative from our party should be present when the balloting is being done for the questions from the members. It did not happen in the last nine years," he said.

Ruling SAD-BJP alliance is "suppressing" the voice of democracy by showing its majority in the business advisory committee also, he alleged.