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MLAs stage walkout

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RAISING THEIR VOICE: AIADMK and PMC members staging a protest in the Puducherry Assembly on Tuesday.

PUDUCHERRY: Having failed in their attempt to raise certain issues, interrupting Lieutenant Governor Bhopinder Singh’s address to the Puducherry Assembly on Tuesday, members belonging to the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Puducherry Munnetra Congress (PMC) staged a walkout from the House.

Just as Mr.Singh began his address at 11 a.m., the MLAs belonging to the two Opposition parties were on their feet trying to raise some issues. However, the Lt.Governor, unperturbed by their act, went ahead reading the address.

Led by their legislature party leader A. Anbalagan, the AIADMK Members walked out of the Assembly. But the PMC members continued to protest. Later, the PMC MLAs also trooped out.

Mr. Anbalagan said the AIADMK members demanded the dismissal of the Congress government, which, they said, had failed to maintain law and order, owing to infighting in the Cabinet. The Lt. Governor’s address had not mentioned any new scheme to be implemented by the government, he added.

Leader of the PMC legislature party K. Lakshminarayanan said the party members wanted to highlight the demand for invoking the Goondas Act in the Union Territory to curb violence by anti-socials. They also condemned the attack on the car of PMC founder P. Kannan, “who had been consistently fighting for the people’s issues,” he added.

Members belonging to the Pattali Makkal Katchi, R.K.R. Anantharaman, P. Arulmurugan and N.G. Pannirselvam, came to the Assembly with green towels on the shoulder, only to indicate their “plea to the government to present a pro-farmer budget, as the one presented by the Union government.”

Parliamentary Secretary to Chief Minister A. Namassivayam moved the motion of thanks to Lt. Governor’s address.

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