The episodes from the Gujarat Assembly are back with tittle-tattle from inside the house. Bringing you a few instances of what happened on the second day of the monsoon session (Sept 14) :

Vora’s point of order went wrong!

While opposition leader Amit Chavda was questioning farmers’ issues, MLA Idar Ramanlal Vora raised a point of order (drawing attention to a rule violation in a meeting of a deliberative assembly). Even after a stern warning from the speaker, Vora persisted on his point of order.

The speaker finally rebuked him, saying, “You’ve been a former speaker of the Gujarat Assembly; how can I accept your point of order without anyone violating the rules of assembly?”

Which private company manages Tapi Civil Hospital?

When former minister of state, Tushar Chaudhary asked which private company has been given the reins of the Civil Hospital in Tapi, health minister Rushikesh Patel defended himself by saying that the fact that the tribals (Adivasis) are getting free treatment in the hospital is more important than knowing who is managing the hospital.

The health minister was quick to change discourse and said that free treatments will be available for 300 beds and the facility of the Ayushman card will also be available in the hospital, never getting back to the question he was asked in the first place.

Fight for the ‘cow dung initiative'

MLA Jagdish Vishwakarma (Panchal) credited the Banas dairy for purchasing cow dung instead of milk from farmers. When speaker Shankar Chaudhary was about to get the compliment for it, Congress leaders clarified that the initiative to buy cow dung instead of milk from farmers was the brainchild of the Congress government. 

Interestingly, Chhattisgarh’s Congress government was the first to take the initiative originally. 

What’s on the land?

During the Q&A session, Congress MLA Shailesh Parmar asked why acacia (locally known as ‘baavad’) is being grown on fertile land in Gandhinagar where mangoes can be sown. The house broke into chuckles after the question.

However, minister of state for forest and environment Mukesh Patel had a response ready. He explained that the acacia was grown to stop the soil erosion of the very fertile land the MLA was talking about, while fruit-bearing trees were also grown on the land. 

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