SRINAGAR: The State Legislative Assembly speaker Kavinder Gupta today directed the Government to submit a report about accommodation provided to Legislators in the House.
The direction came after members from the ruling PDP-BJP coalition alleged that they have not been provided proper accommodation in summer capital Srinagar and winter capital Jammu.
The issue was raised by Mohammad Ashraf Mir when he was participating in the discussion on allotment of grants to the departments held by Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, who was not present in the issue.
Dar was also joined by other Members from the coalition who wanted to know why former ministers and legislators are still occupying Government accommodation when the present Members are facing accommodation problem.
They demanded that all Members be provided same accommodation as was given to ministers. Mr Mir, who defeated former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in Sonawar constituency in 2014 polls, said it was ironic that defeated MLAs are living in Government accommodations but the present Members donot have any space to stay.
”When I was dropped from the Council of Ministers in the new Government, I was directed to vacate official accommodation within a day”, he said adding a number of former ministers and MLA are still occupying the Government accommodation. (AGENCIES)
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