Bhubaneswar: The monsoon session of the Odisha Legislative Assembly began today with the Congress party submitting a no-confidence motion against the state government.
The notice, supported by fifteen MLAs, was given to the Assembly Secretary under the leadership of Congress Legislative Party leader Ramachandra Kadam. This action follows a strategic meeting of the Congress Legislative Party held yesterday, presided over by Ramachandra Kadam and PCC president Bhakta Charan Das.
The decision to move the motion stems from what the Congress party describes as the government’s comprehensive failure across several key sectors. PCC president Bhakta Charan Das stated that the state has seen a significant rise in atrocities against women, including gang rape and murder, placing Odisha at the top of the list for such crimes in India. He emphasized that women’s safety has deteriorated to the point where they are “completely unsafe,” with heinous crimes occurring in every district and affecting women of all ages.
In addition to women’s safety, the notice highlights several other critical issues including the precarious condition of farmers due to government failure and the government’s inability to control the black market.
Other issues involved, complete collapse of education and health services, failure to properly conduct a single recruitment-based examination in the last fifteen months, affecting lakhs of students, as well as complete failure of the continuous development process and the government’s broken promises to the people.
The no-confidence motion is a direct response to these long-standing grievances, which the Congress claims have made the government a “complete failure.”