New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Tuesday asked the government to allocate Rs 20,000 crore for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits. During the discussion on the Finance Bill-2022 in Rajya Sabha, Singh raised the issue of "abuse" of a chief minister by a BJP state president and questioned the culture in the party and the RSS, which led to heated arguments between him and BJP MP GVL Narasimha Rao. Rao objected to their remark Singh that the government will lose its face and asked the chair to expunge it from the record.
Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, who was in the chair of the speaker, assured that records will be scrutinised but Singh and Rao continued the verbal spate. Singh said that the Arvind Kejriwal-led government recently presented a budget allocating 22 percent of the expenditure for education and 13 percent each for transport, road, and health sectors. "We provide 300 units of electricity free to the citizens of Delhi in a 4 percent budget. Learn something from Arvind Kejriwal. What do you do? Politics on film posters. I would like to demand through you (chair of the house), stop making a joke of the pain of Kashmiri Pandits and make provision in this budget that your government will spend at least Rs 20,000 crore on the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits," Singh said.
The AAP MP said he had tabled a proposal that all MPs should spend their MPLADS fund of one year for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits. Singh said the BJP's state president is abusing an elected chief minister. "This is the culture that you teach. Is this the culture taught in shakha of RSS," Singh said.