Har CM asks parties to rise above "political considerations"

Even as Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today appealed to political parties to rise above "political considerations" to take the state on the path of progress, Opposition Congress staged a walkout from the House protesting "insufficient time" for its members to speak.
"We have to rise above political considerations. Sometimes politics of confrontation is pursued, but it must be stopped keeping in view the state's interests," he said at the one-day special session of the Haryana Assembly to mark the state's 'Swaran Jayanti' (golden jubilee).
Opposition parties have been repeatedly accusing the BJP government for failing to control the Jat stir in which 30 lives were lost in February.

They alleged that the failure "vitiated the state's atmosphere and threatened the brotherhood".
"There is no problem in raising a public interest issue or bringing things to the notice of government but when there is (politics of confrontation) it harms the interests of state. This needs to be stopped," he said.
Warning forces who intended to disturb peace and brotherhood, he said, "Our humility should not be treated as weakness."

Just as Khattar started speaking, Congress members staged a walkout protesting "insufficient time" was given to their legislators to speak in the House.
"We will do what is expected of us. But to do that it is expected that the Opposition and other stakeholders will also contribute," he said, adding the government had received suggestions on how to take the state forward from various quarters, including the Opposition.

Responding to views put forth in the House by the Opposition, he said, "We have to rise above issues like who were involved and whose efforts resulted in formation of Haryana."
Instead if we should give the entire credit to people of the state, he added.
The Chief Minister said, "Various people at different time periods spoke about Haryana as a separate entity. Much before the state was actually carved out from Punjab."
"In 1923 in Lahore, Swami Satyanand had raised the demand for separate Haryana and so did Sir Chottu Ram and others," he said.
Khattar informed the House that the state government on November 1 had restored the power to grant change of land use (CLU) and other permissions to the Director of the Town and Country Planning (TCP) Department.

Earlier, all CLU cases were presented before the Chief Minister in the name of internal concurrence, he said.