The New Indian Express: Dehradun:
Monday, 03 August 2020.
After
state government decided to implement a cut of 30 per cent on salary and
allowances of Chief Minister, Ministers and MLAs, majority of BJP MLAs failed
to comply, revealed an RTI.
The RTI
query was filed last month by Manoj
Rawat, INC MLA from Kedarnath state assembly constituency.
"The
RTI shows that how insincere are the BJP leaders and how much they care about
people. It is tax payers money from which we are getting paid and as
representatives of the people we should not shy away from giving this money
back to help those very people only," he said.
Salaries
and allowances for a month for one MLA amounts to Rs 3.25 lakh.
An
amount of Rs 57,600 is being deducted from salaries and allowances from all 11
INC MLAs while only 13 MLAs of BJP out of 57 have agreed to deduct Rs 57,600
from their salaries.
Total 16
MLAs of BJP are having a deduction of Rs 30,000 per month, four MLAs of ruling
party are having a deduction of Rs 12,600 per month while three BJP MLAs are
having a deduction of Rs 9,000 per month since the month of May, this year.
Interestingly,
the state assembly secretariat did not provide information about deduction from
salaries and allowances of the Chief Minister and the cabinet ministers.
Indira
Hridayesh, leader of opposition in the state legislative assembly, a rank that
of a cabinet minister and MLA of INC from Haldwani is taking a cut of Rs 75,600
since the month of May 2020.
Bansidhar
Bhagat, state BJP president who has been taking deduction of Rs 9,000 since
last three months said, "We are taking deductions as told which is 30% of
our basic salary. Congress party is spreading misinformation."
Earlier,
in May this year, the state cabinet took a decision that 30% of the salaries
and allowances of ministers, MLAs of the state including the chief minister
will be cut to be deposited in Chief Minister's Relief Fund' to be used in
fight for COVID-19 pandemic.
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