CHANDIGARH, March 10 -- The opposition Congress staged a walkout from the Haryana assembly on Monday during the ongoing budget session after chief minister Nayab Singh Saini said that the Congress was desperately trying to float a "false narrative" by portraying a "health emergency-like" situation in the state.

Replying to a calling attention notice of the Congress, the chief minister said that allegations regarding irregularities in payments under the Ayushman Bharat scheme and claims that private hospitals have stopped treatment are completely baseless, factually incorrect, and far from the truth.

In their joint calling attention notice, the Congress MLAs Ashok Kumar Arora, Bharat Bhushan Batra and Geeta Bhukkal stated that around 600...