Chaos In Bihar Assembly As New Bill Aims To Give More Power To Police

Members of the opposition Grand Alliance, comprising RJD, Congress and the Left, were agitated over the Bihar Special Armed Police Bill, 2021, and the disturbance created by them caused proceedings of the assembly to be adjourned as many as five times during the day.

Virulent opposition to a bill introduced in the Bihar assembly by the Nitish Kumar government, with a view to giving more teeth to the police force, today led to unprecedented turmoil in the House where police was called in to physically evict legislators who had laid siege to the Speakers chamber. Members of the opposition Grand Alliance, comprising RJD, Congress and the Left, were agitated over the Bihar Special Armed Police Bill, 2021, and the disturbance created by them caused proceedings of the assembly to be adjourned as many as five times during the day. Leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav, who was detained while participating in a procession taken out against the "black law", in addition to other issues, gave an inkling of what was in store at an early morning press conference. "Today is the birth anniversary of Ram Manohar Lohia who famously said that if the streets go empty, the legislature goes rogue", said Mr Yadav who also tweeted an Urdu couplet in the memory of revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru who were executed on this date in the year 1931.