Opposition stages sit-in demonstration against Gogoi govt

A day after it accused the ruling Congress government of indulging in horse-trading during Friday's Rajya Sabha election, the Opposition today staged a peaceful sit-in demonstration demanding dismissal of the Tarun Gogoi government.

The entire Opppostion, save the four dissident BJP and two
AUDF MLAs, sat with placards in the main entrance of the Assam
assembly as soon as the House assembled in the morning.

Some of the placards read `Save democracy', `Democracy has
been murdered', 'Chief minister Tarun Gogoi resign', `Dismiss
Tarun Gogoi government', `Disqualify the dissident MLAs'.

Opposition leader Chandra Mohan Patowary told reporters that the sit-in protest was to save democracy in the state, where allegedly "money politics had been introduced by the
Congress for the first time to win Rajya Sabha seats".
    As Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai did not allow the Opposition
a Point of Order in the Assembly yesterday to discuss the RS
poll issue, Patowary said today's protest was to inform the
public about "activities of the Congress government". (More)
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