GUWAHATI: A Maharashtra MLA’s remarks about purported canine meat consuming habits of individuals of Assam led to noisy scenes in its meeting on Friday, with opposition legislators disrupting Governor Gulab Chand Kataria’s speech and later staging a stroll out. As the opposition MLAs stood up and shouted slogans, looking for to know what motion has been taken towards the legislator, Kataria needed to reduce brief his speech to fifteen minutes.
MLA Bachchu Kadu had reportedly proposed within the Maharashtra Assembly that stray canines be despatched to Assam to regulate their rising inhabitants, as they’re consumed by locals within the northeastern state.
The difficulty was first raised by Congress legislator Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha, who questioned the Assam authorities’s ‘inaction’ towards Kadu, declaring {that a} police crew from the state had lately reached New Delhi to arrest get together chief Pawan Khera over alleged remarks towards the prime minister.
AIUDF MLA Rafikul Islam urged Speaker Biswajit Daimary to take suo motu cognisance for breach of privilege towards Kadu’s remarks and ‘make him come to the Assam Assembly and apologise’.
Independent legislator Akhil Gogoi and CPI(M) MLA Manoranjan Talukdar additionally joined the opposition legislators in demanding motion towards their Maharashtra counterpart.
As the Congress MLAs moved into the Well of the House, Daimary requested them to return to their seats, and strategy the matter by correct channels.
Amid the ruckus, all of the opposition MLAs staged a stroll out.
