Slippers, microphones and paperwork crumpled up into balls flew like missiles in the Odisha meeting on Saturday, as BJP members raged over the passage of a invoice with out dialogue, scary the Speaker to droop three of them and order their quick exit from the chamber. BJP members had been up in arms in opposition to Speaker S N Patro after the House handed the Odisha Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill inside minutes with none dialogue.
Congress MLAs, too, had been furious because the chair had turned down their discover for a dialogue on alleged corruption in mining actions. Hardly had the Bill been handed in the pre-lunch session when opposition BJP members had been on their ft, shouting at the Speaker.
Soon they started flinging slippers, microphones and paper balls that shot over the opposition benches and landed close to the Speaker’s podium, plunging the meeting into chaos and resulting in adjournment until lunch. When the House reassembled, the Speaker Patro introduced suspension of BJP deputy chief in the House B C Sethi, Mohan Majhi, the social gathering’s whip, and MLA J N Mishra all through your entire session and requested them to go away instantly. The BJP has 22 MLAs in the 147-member Odisha meeting.
The motion adopted after Patro, Parliamentary Affairs Minister B Okay Arukha, Government Chief Whip Pramila Mallick, Leader of the Opposition P Okay Naik and Congress Legislature Party (CLP) chief Narasingha Mishra watched a video of the incident. The errant MLAs, nevertheless, remained defiant and staged a sit-in close to Mahatma Gandhi’s statue on the premises.
“Our members were suspended without giving them an opportunity to present their point of view. Our dharna will continue till tomorrow,” Leader of the Opposition P Okay Naik of the BJP instructed reporters. Suspended MLAs Mishra and Majhi stated they’d no regrets for hurling slippers and different objects at the Speaker’s podium.
“We were not given an opportunity to speak. We have done no wrong. The objects thrown by MLAs did not land even close to the Speaker’s podium,” Majhi stated. Mishra accused the Speaker of working in a partisan method “like a BJD member”, and blamed the chair for the fracas.
“I don’t care about suspension. I have been working for the people and will continue to do so. This suspension cannot stop me from performing my duty as people’s representative,” he declared nonchalantly. Government’s Chief Whip Pramila Mallick alleged the errant BJP MLAs acted the best way they did to “remain in news”.
Congress Legislature Party chief Narsingha Mishra dubbed the incident as unlucky however voiced displeasure over the Speaker rejecting his social gathering’s discover for a dialogue on unlawful mining actions. “It is also unfortunate that bills are passed in the House without discussion. Bills should not be passed when the House is not in order,” he stated.
Sethi stated the BJP members had been protesting in opposition to the Speaker as he didn’t enable Leader of the Opposition P Okay Naik to talk. “We also wanted a discussion on illegal mining activities and farmers issues. But the Speaker did not allow it. Is it democratic?” he stated.
