Gujarat Congress conducts mock Assembly session

By Our Special Correspondent

AHMEDABAD, MARCH 28. It had all the ingredients of a regular Assembly session - noisy demonstrations, frequent interruptions and trading of charges. But the only difference at the end of the three-hour-long drama was that instead of defending his administration, the ``chief minister'' at the first sign of trouble ``resigned'' from his office owning ``moral responsibility'' for all the ``failures'' of the government.

It was a mock Gujarat Assembly session organised at the town hall here by the pradesh Congress in protest against the ``undemocratic high handed'' behaviour of the ruling BJP in suspending the entire Opposition from the State Assembly during the current budget session scheduled to end in Gandhinagar tomorrow.

In what the Congress termed as the ``People's Assembly,'' the ``Keshubhai Patel ministry'' was put on trial for its omissions and commissions - ``failure'' to provide relief to victims of natural calamities, misappropriation of the relief materials, corruption, creation of a situation of lawlessness in the State, and many more.

And the ``chief minister,'' ignoring the ``forceful defence'' put up by his home minister, ``admitted'' that his government had ``failed'' in all departments and announced amidst shouts of ``approval'' from the audience that he would go straight to the Raj Bhavan to submit the resignation of his ministry.

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