The winter session of the state legislature began on a stormy note on Friday after opposition members stalled the proceedings of the state assembly over the issue of law and order, cane price and other issues.
Due to the opposition ruckus, question hour was suspended.
As soon as the House assembled BJP members trouped into the well of the House followed by the BSP, Congress and the RlD, waving banners and shouting anti-government slogans.
The BSP members staged a walkout raising slogan “ Mayawati ka susasan, khatam karega SP ka Kusasan” predicting return of BSP rule after 201 polls.
BJP members continued to protest over law and order and demanded upward revision of cane price. Congress and RlD members too joined with the BJP in raising slogans against the government over the inadequate cane price.
Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey first asked the members to return to their seats but when they refused to budge he adjourned the House for 20 minutes. The BJP members staged dharna inside the house during the adjourned period.
later when the House re-assembled the BJP members continued their protest. The Speaker went through the day’s agenda amid that din. In between the noisy scene, the speaker also administered oath to a new SP member Vachaspati, elected from Sirathu seat.
The government tabled six ordinances and two bills.
The House will meet on Monday, when the government will table the second supplementary budget of the Samajwadi Party government.
later, talking to media persons leader of the Opposition and BSP member Swami Prasad Maurya said that the law and order situation in the state was alarming and the goons were running a parallel government in the state.
BJP legislature party leader Suresh Kumar Khanna said that development has come to a naught. People are craving for electricity, water and crime free society. Instead they are getting goonda raj, he said.
The Congress and RlD leaders alleged that the government was in nexus with the private sugar mills. Hence, the Government has not hiked the cane price for the past two season.
RlD’s Dalbir Singh demanded the cane price of Rs 350 per quintal against the government’s approval of Rs 280 per quintal.
Meanwhile, the Upper House met on the first day of winter session remembering senior leaders who earlier remained in the Council, and had passed away. The leaders paid their tributes to former member of the Council, Rajkumar Sama, Captain Abbas Ali, Brahmdutt, and Jagendra Swaroop. The House paid homage to all the four leaders by
keeping a silence for two minutes. later the chairman of the Upper House, Ganesh Shankar Pandey, adjourned the House till Monday morning.