Chandigarh, March 4
On the last day of its Budget session, the Haryana Vidhan Sabha rushed through 16 Bills in just an hour and 45 minutes with the members spending about six minutes by discussion on each Bill.

Being the last Assembly session of the Hooda government before the elections, the government had lined up several Bills as part of its “sop opera” to beat anti-incumbency ahead of the Lok Sabha poll. There was hardly any discussion on most Bills. Only the Right to Service Bill and the Bill to regularise illegal colonies prompted some serious discussion in the House.

During the discussion on the Right to Service Bill, INLD member Ashok Arora and Ram Pal Majra tried to put the Hooda government on the mat on its reported move to appoint retired IAS officers as the chairman and members of the commission. Congress member Sampat Singh also said the posts of the chairman and members should not restricted to retired bureaucrats. These should be open to other categories of government officials also, he added.