Din in Chhattisgarh Assembly as BJP accuses state govt of failing to implement PMAY

The opposition BJP on Wednesday said the Congress government in Chhattisgarh has failed to properly implement the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in the state due to which 16 lakh houses for the poor could not be constructed.

Raising the issue in zero hour during the ongoing budget session, Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs, including Dharamlal Kaushik, Shivratan Sharma and Ajay Chandrakar, sought a discussion on the issue by moving an adjournment motion notice.

The BJP legislators said the PMAY was launched by the Centre in 2015, and in other states, houses are being constructed for the poor ''but in Chhattisgarh, the entitled beneficiaries are wandering door to door''.

''People are staging a protest on Wednesday against the state government on the issue,'' they said.

The demand of the BJP camp for a discussion on the adjournment notice led to an uproar in the House as Congress MLAs countered their charges.

As the chair rejected the demand, BJP MLAs started raising slogans against the state government. Amid the pandemonium, the House proceedings were adjourned for five minutes.

The BJP had planned to gherao the state Assembly on Wednesday to protest the state government's ''failure'' to implement the PMAY.