Samajwadi Party MLAs created a din in the assembly during the governor’s address to the joint sitting of the Uttar Pradesh legislature on Friday.
During the hour-long address by Governor Anandiben Patel, the SP MLAs carrying placards continued to raise slogans against the government over law and order and other issues.
SP president and leader of opposition Akhilesh Yadav was present in the House during the din created by his party MLAs.
SP legislators on Friday raised slogans and demonstrated in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly complex before the start of the address by Governor Anandiben Patel on the first day of the budget session of the UP Legislative Assembly.
The SP legislators led by party state president Naresh Uttam Patel, MLC, raised slogans and staged a demonstration near the statue of Chaudhary Charan Singh at the Vidhan Bhawan.
The SP legislators raised issues pertaining to law and order, inflation, unemployment and conducting caste census. The party members also held pamphlets and banners in which slogans were written against the government.
Uttam Patel, leading the protest, said, “The Bharatiya Janata Party has reduced the number of House sittings so much that we are not able to raise the voice of the public. Therefore, we are protesting against the wrong policies of the government under the statue of Chaudhary Charan Singh in the Vidhan Bhawan complex.”
“In the budget session, abiding by the democratic traditions and parliamentary decorum, we will raise the demands of the people in the House,” he said.
SP’s Manoj Pandey said, “We demand discussion on issues related to the government.”
He said today people were troubled by law and order, inflation, unemployment and corruption.
“Being the main opposition party, we are raising the voice of the public and protesting today. It is the demand of Samajwadi Party that the government should discuss the issues of public interest in the House,” Pandey said.