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Walk-out in House

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party staged a walkout even as pandemonium prevailed in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Wednesday. The SP boycott was in protest against the Speaker, Sukhdev Rajbhar’s refusal to suspend rules to facilitate a debate on the arrest and subsequent denial of permission to one of its members for attending the session.

Amid the din with the SP members in the well of the House, proposals for supplementary grants totalling about Rs.2000 crore were tabled. The Supplementary Budget was subsequently passed by voice vote.

Barring the first 15 minutes, the House remained adjourned for the entire Question Hour as the Opposition – the Samajwadi Party, the BJP, the Congress and Rashtriya Lok Dal – stalled the proceedings on different issues, including the Samajwadi MLA Arvind Giri’s arrest, creation of a “Harit Pradesh” and non-payment of sugarcane arrears to farmers.

The supplementary grant proposals were tabled when the House re-assembled for Zero Hour, and passed with the main Opposition party absent.

Ambika Chaudhary of the Samajwadi Party accused the Bahujan Samaj Party of perpetrating a reign of terror and indulging in atrocities against SP workers and leaders.

Referring to the arrest of Mr. Giri in Lakhimpur Kheri, Mr. Chaudhary said that elected representatives were not being allowed to attend the proceedings of the Vidhan Sabha.Pramod Tiwari of the Congress raised the issue of sugarcane farmers and said that around Rs.3000 crore dues was pending on the sugar mill owners. He alleged that due to poverty the farmers were being forced to commit suicide.

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