Parkash Singh Badal Makes Unscheduled Visit To Pvs To Meet Cong MLAs

Requests Them To Join Proceedings As House Resumes, Deeply Pained By Events : Parkash Singh Badal

5 Dariya News

Chandigarh 13-Sep-2016

The Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today made a fervent appeal to the Congress legislators to join  the House proceedings of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha  when it resumes tomorrow. Mr Badal requested the opposition MLAs to end their sit-in and said, "I am really pained by the inconvenience which you have had to go through here and request you to end it right away. The Chief Minister went over personally to "Punjab Vidhan Sabha around noon to meet the Congress legislators and make his "sincerest and most humble" request .The Chief Minister said that he had come to them with utmost humility as Leader of the House. He said he was deeply pained by the sequence of events and requested the legislators to accept his plea end the matter amicably in the true spirit of democracy. 

"I appeal to you with folded hands, both in my personal capacity and as Leader of the House to join the proceedings of the House as it resumes tomorrow. In the end, we are all here to perform our duties in the House as representatives of the people who have sent us here. "

The Chief Minister said that he would have come even earlier but for the delay in formalities regarding permission from the honourable speaker as he was visiting a hospital for a check up. The Chief Minister was with the Congress legislators for about 25 minutes before he came back expressing the hope that his sincerest request would be heeded to in the spirit in which it was meant.