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Winter Session of UP Assembly starts on a stormy note

Opposition repeatedly disrupted proccedings.

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Yogi Adityanath and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on their way to attend the winter session of the State Assembly, in Lucknow on Thursday.
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The Winter Session of the UP Assembly began on a stormy note on Thursday when opposition created ruckus disrupting proceedings and forcing several adjournments.

Opening day’s proceedings began on stormy note when the Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary raised and sought a debate on steep hike in power tariff and demanded its rollback during the question hour.

Following refusal from the Chair, members of the Samajwadi Party, carrying placards for rollback of hike in power tariff, stormed the Well and raised anti-government slogans. The house was adjourned thrice following disruption by the opposition members.

“We will not allow the House to run till our demand is met. Power hike was causing a blow to farmers, poor and middle class at a time when prices of essential commodities are spiralling due to the wrong policies of the Central government,” charged the Leader of Opposition.

Despite request from the Speaker HN Dixit to maintain calm and let the proceedings continue, unruly Samajwadi Party members continued to stage prorest in front of the Well and staged a boycott.  The Congress too supported the issues raised by the SP members. The question hour in both houses of the State Legislature could not be taken up due to opposition disrupting proceedings.

The House was adjourned for most of the day when Speaker’s plea went unheeded. The Parliamentary Minister Suresh Khanna said that after losing 2014 Lok Sabha, 2017 Assembly and now urban local bodies’ polls, the opposition is taking out its frustration on the floor of the house by creating ruckus to draw attention of the people who voted them out. “They are rendered unemployed by the people of the state. They have no work but noise to make,” charged the minister.

Similar unruly scenes were witnessed in the Upper House (UP Council) when Samajwadi Party launched an attack on the ruling BJP on deteriorating law and order and shortage of seeds and fertilizers for the farmers.  Carrying placards and donning sports caps with anti-government slogans written on them, Samajwadi Party and BSP members also raised the issue of faulty and rigged EVMs used during recently-concluded elections. Repeated requests from the Chairman Ramesh Yadav to maintain order were ignored the noise and din created by the opposition members forced the Chairman to adjourn the Upper House for the day.

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