MP showdown today amid corona shadow Uncertainty as floor test not on House schedule
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The coronavirus outbreak has cast its shadow over floor test by the “minority” Kamal Nath government, scheduled to be held on Monday.
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker N.P. Prajapati on Sunday declared he would take a final call on holding the floor test in the House, keeping in view the coronavirus threat, only on Monday.
And in an interesting development, the Assembly secretariat made no mention of the floor test in the business proceedings of the first day of the Budget Session of the House, due to begin on Monday, indicating uncertainty over the holding of the trust vote on that day.
The Speaker had earlier on Sunday tried to parry the question on holding the floor test on Monday, as directed by state governor Lalji Tandon, calling it “hypothetical”.
Hours after governor Lalji Tandon asked the Congress government to prove its majority in the House on Monday by saying it had been reduced to a “minority” following the resignation of 22 Congress MLAs, several ministers in the Kamal Nath Cabinet demanded the suspension of the Budget Session citing the coronavirus threat. The session should be suspended to avoid the corona infection”, law minister P.C. Sharma told reporters here. He said this was discussed at a state Cabinet meeting held in the morning under the chairmanship of chief minister Kamal Nath.
Assembly Speaker N.P. Prajapati said he was concerned over the
Madhya Pradesh Congress MLAs arrive at a hotel in Bhopal after returning from Jaipur on Sunday.
health of members of the House due to the coronavirus threat, and ordered steps like screening of MLAs and others entering the House and the wearing of masks by them.
BJP leader and Leader of the Opposition Gopal Bhargav said the Kamal Nath government was trying to escape the floor test citing the threat of coronavirus, and said it ■