Punjab Assembly: Balwinder Bains opposes hike in MLAs’ salary, stages walkout in protest

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Chandigarh, December 14: Lok Insaaf Party leader Balwinder Bains on Friday opposed the proposed of hike in salary of MLAs in Punjab.

The proposal was put up at a committee meeting before the Vidhan Sabha. He staged a walkout in protest.

The MLA said how was it that the government was increasing the salaries of the MLAs when they don’t have the money to pay their employees.

The Punjab Assembly session had started on Thursday with obituary references.

Initially proposed as a three-day Winter Session, the treasury benches in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha are learnt to have argued at the Business Advisory Council meeting that since there was no business that needed to be discussed, the length of the session be curtailed by a day and the sittings reduced to two.