After 13 hours of debate, the Baghel-led government defeated the motion by voice vote. (File Photo/PTI)
The BJP had moved a no-confidence motion against the government on Wednesday and it was scheduled to be discussed on Friday.
The Bhupesh Baghel-led Congress government in Chhattisgarh on Saturday survived a no-confidence motion moved by the Bharatiya Janata Party on the last day of the monsoon session of the state assembly.
After 13 hours of debate in the state assembly, the no-confidence motion was defeated by a voice vote at 1 am.
While the Congress has 71 members in the 90-member assembly, the BJP has 13 MLAs in the house.
In the debate that began soon after noon on Friday, the BJP presented a 109-point ‘charge sheet’ against the Baghel government, accusing it of corruption and failure to fulfill poll promises.
During the raucous debate, the opposition members targeted the Congress government over alleged scams, non-fulfilment of its poll promises and the “deteriorating” law and order situation.
The Treasury Bench dismissed the allegations claiming that the opposition failed to raise any concrete issue and its charge sheet lacked facts.
Responding to the debate, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that the charge sheet of the opposition lacks facts and by bringing it, the BJP has given the government an opportunity to highlight its achievements in the assembly.
Shortly before the CM concluded his speech, BJP members started raising slogans against the government claiming that it had failed to respond to the opposition’s allegations and walked out of the House.
Criticizing the Centre, Baghel said that the Enforcement Directorate has been given enormous powers which is not in the interest of the country. “I strongly oppose the move to give powers to ED to investigate matters related to GST,” he said.
The ruling party rejected the allegations and said that the BJP had failed to come up with concrete issues during the last session ahead of assembly elections in the state later this year.
The BJP had tabled a no-confidence motion against the government on Wednesday and a discussion on it was scheduled for Friday.
Initiating the debate, BJP MLA Brijmohan Agarwal hit out at the Congress and said the no-confidence motion has been brought because this government has become “deaf and dumb” and a “murderer of democracy”.
He claimed that the atrocities of the Baghel government on the youth are more than that of the British.
He referred to the removal of Mohan Markam as the chief of the Chhattisgarh unit of the Congress, inducting him into the Baghel-led cabinet, and the removal of minister Premsai Singh Tekam from the cabinet.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI,