Slipper act: 67 Bihar MLAs suspended
India Blooms News Service
Patna, July 21 (IBNS): Bihar speaker Udai Narain Choudhry Wednesday suspended sixty seven opposition MLAs for throwing slippers at him and for unruly behaviour in the House.
This is the second day of uproar in the Bihar assembly when a Congress woman MLC (Member of Legislative Council) was seen hurling even flower pots at people around.
With highest 42 from Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the suspended legislators included other opposition parties like Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), CPI-M, CPI-ML and independents.
Among those suspended are the State RJD President Abdul Bari Siddiqui and RJD deputy leader in the Assembly Shakeel Ahmed Khan.
The MLAs shall be kept out from the assembly for the rest of the ongoing monsoon session.
The legislators were marshaled out of the house by the watch and ward staff amid protests by opposition members after the state parliamentary affairs in-charge Brijendra Prasad Yadav's proposal for suspension of the MLAs was passed by a voice vote.
A clash broke out when the opposition legislators were sitting on a protest demonstration for Tuesday’s manhandling inside the state assembly by members of the ruling coalition.
The oppositions demanded resignation of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy, Sushil Kumar Modi over the High Court order for CBI probe into alleged financial irregularities in the state published in the CAG.
In both the Houses of Bihar unruly scenes were witnessed on Tuesday as opposition members overturned desks and chairs, broke microphones and fought with ruling alliance in which several legislators were injured.
RJD leader Shakeel Ahmad Khan said that the opposition will continue its agitation till the corrupt ruling government falls.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, against whom there is an alleged irregularities of rupees 11,412 crore from the state treasury, said that as unable to come to power the ‘frustrated’ opposition parties in order ‘to get the media publicity’ had indulged in such activity.
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