LUCKNOW: The Mayawati Government faced the heat from the Samajwadi Party for the second day in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly as the principal Opposition reiterated its demand for deletion of the term "unconstitutional government," referring to the Mulayam Singh Government, from Governor T.V. Rajeswar's address to the legislature. As pandemonium prevailed on Tuesday with the SP members staging a dharna in the well and raising slogans against the government, Speaker Sukhdev Rajbhar adjourned the House for the day.

Barring the tabling of the motion of thanks to the Governor's address by the Bahujan Samaj Party's Om Prakash Singh and the passage of the Amendment Bill renaming King George's Dental University in Lucknow Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Dental University, no business could be conducted.

While the Leader of the House, Chief Minister Mayawati stayed away, leader of the Opposition Mulayam Singh refused to present his amendments to the motion of thanks until the Speaker gave his ruling for deleting the word "unconstitutional" from the Governor's address delivered on Monday.

SP deputy leader Mohd Azam Khan, who raised the issue immediately after the Vidhan Sabha assembled at 11 a.m, said the Governor as head of the State had addressed the legislature during the tenure of the previous Government also. The House framed many laws in the 39 months of the SP Government. If the Governor felt that the previous Government was "unconstitutional," he could have used his powers to dismiss it. As the 2007 Assembly elections were held during the regime of the "unconstitutional Government," the present government and the newly constituted House too were unconstitutional.

As the Governor was the representative of the President, the SP would appeal to the President to take strict action against him, Mr. Khan said. Mr. Rajbhar adjourned the House thrice as the SP members refused to relent. Then it was adjourned for the day following the ruckus created by the SP legislators, who even tried to reach the Speaker's podium and jostled with Assembly guards.

In the Upper House also, SP members swarmed the well and staged a dharna. The House was adjourned for the day.

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