The UP assembly adjourned the proceedings on Monday after condoling the death of the BJP MlA Mathura Prasad Pal. The MlA suffering from cancer had died on July 22 while on his way to a hospital in Gurugram.
The parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna moved a condolence resolution in the absence of leader of the house Yogi Adityanath. Khanna said that the entire house was shocked in hearing the news of the death of Mathura Prasad Pal, who was very popular among the people of his assembly constituency Sikendra in Kanpur Dehat district. He said that CM had visited the native place of the MlA on Saturday and he too accompanied the CM to pay their last respect to the departed leader. Mathura Prasad Pal, 71, was three-time MlA with first time winning in 1991, second in 1996 and the third and last in 2017 on BJP ticket. BJP MlA Neelam Katiyar too expressed her condolence claiming that Mathura Prasad Pal was a simple person who was attached to his native village. Speaker Hridya Narain Dikshit also said that Mathura Prasad Pal was a friendly person and his death has created vacuum in the house as well as in the state. later the house observed two minute silence to condole the death of the legislator.
Meanwhile the Budget Session of the UP Assembly has been re-scheduled. As per the agenda of the house approved by the business advisory committee of the house here on Monday the session is likely to conclude on July 27 after adopting the finance and appropriation bill. The opposition parties boycotted the meeting of the business advisory committee. Earlier the House was slated to run up till July 28 but on July 21, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna had announced that the proceedings will end on July 24 as there is no justification in continuing with the proceedings of the house as the entire opposition is boycotting the house since July 19.
The sitting of the house on Tuesday has been suspended as several BJP ministers and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath would be in New Delhi to attend the oath ceremony of the president elect Ram nath Kovind, the first person from UP to be elected to the highest office of the country. The house will now meet on July 26 to take up the budgetary grants of the Home and the general administration departments. The finance bill will be taken up for debate and passage on July 27 and after that the house is likely to be adjourned sine die. Meanwhile, opposition leaders defended their act to boycott the meeting of the business advisory committee. “The BJP government has muzzled the voice of the opposition in the house and till we cannot have our say in the house, there was no justification in attending the proceedings of the house “said the leader of opposition Ram Govind Chowdhary. He said that the opposition parties are left with no option but to stay away from the proceedings of the house as the treasury benches are not interested in the view point of the opposition parties