Reportedly the delhi assembly on thursday passed a resolution for the permanent reinstatement of bus marshals in the city for the delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and cluster buses, a year-long pending demand of the ruling aam aadmi party (AAP). In 2023, delhi lieutenant governor Vinai Kumar Saxena ordered the termination of the services of all civil defence volunteers working as marshals on buses. Perhaps the AAP government came up with the bus Marshal Scheme in 2015 to ensure the safety and security of women and children on buses in the national capital as they lack control over police.
Earlier in february 2024, a little before his arrest, then delhi chief minister arvind kejriwal also raised the same issue in the house and said that the scheme worked smoothly until 2022. This is the first assembly session since Atishi took over as the delhi chief minister. She is expected to seek a vote of trust in the house on Friday. The total strength of the MLAs in the 70 member delhi assembly has dropped to 66 now after AAP lost three legislators in the last few months. It now has 59 MLAs, while the bjp has seven.
Moreover AAP mla Rajendra Pal Gautam, also a former cabinet minister, has moved to the congress and resigned, while two more AAP MLAs, raaj kumar Anand and Kartar Singh, were disqualified after they moved to the BJP. During the day, the house also saw AAP in a heated argument with the bjp, demanding that pending CAG reports be tabled in the House. The two parties also clashed over the illegal tree-cutting in Delhi.
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