Odisha BJP continues to protest suspension
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Legislators spend night time out within the Assembly campus regardless of Speaker’s effort to persuade them not to
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators spent the night time below the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the campus of the Odisha State Assembly protesting the suspension of three of their colleagues.
BJP MLAs have been handed a suspension after sneakers have been hurled at Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro throughout the ruckus within the State Assembly on Saturday.
Pramila Mallick, the State authorities’s chief whip, had alleged that BJP MLAs Bishnu Charan Sethi and Jai Narayan Mishra had thrown sneakers on the Chair. Subsequently, the Speaker, after going via CCTV digital camera footage pronounced the decision of a suspension.
BJP MLAs stated they’d not been given the chance to current their views. The Budget session of the Assembly was ended abruptly, 5 days earlier than its scheduled conclusion.
Mr. Patro tried to persuade BJP MLAs not to sleep on the campus however they caught to their stand. Bijay Pal Singh Tomar, co-in-charge of the Odisha BJP’s affairs, went to the Assembly campus and requested them to finish the protest.
“Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who is leader of the House, has not attended the House for a single day. The CM, however, toured several districts for his political work. But we were not allowed to speak in the Assembly. We had to spend whole night under the sky protesting arrogance of the Treasury Bench,” stated Pradipta Naik, Leader of Opposition, on Sunday.
“The government passed Bills undemocratically through the Speaker. I, being Leader of the Opposition, raised my hand to speak, [but] I was overlooked. When the government suppressed all democratic norms on strength of their majority, the Opposition parties were left with the only option, which was protest,” stated Mr. Naik.
Mr. Mishra, a senior BJP MLA, stated the Assembly was not functioning in the way in which it ought to have functioned. “All democratic norms have been trampled in the House. The Speaker failed to protect the rights of Opposition MLAs. We should have been allowed to speak. Bills should not have been passed without discussion.”
BJP MLAs intend to meet Governor Ganeshi Lal and request him to not to give his assent to the Bills handed with out dialogue.
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