Pandemonium in Bihar Assembly as BJP MLAs demand Tejashwi’s resignation
The Hindu
The Bihar Assembly witnessed unruly scenes on July 11 as the Opposition BJP MLAs trooped into the well of the House, raising slogans demanding the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav
The Bihar Assembly witnessed unruly scenes on July 11 as the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs demanded the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister and ruling Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav as the CBI recently named him in a chargesheet filed in connection with a land-for-jobs scam
The BJP MLAs trooped into the well of the House, raising slogans demanding Mr. Yadav resignation. They also lifted chairs over their heads and also banged on the table. Amid the continued bedlam, Speaker Awadh Bihari Choudhary adjourned the House till 2 p.m. “Your behaviour is a blot on the history of this august House”, he told the protesting BJP MLAs before adjourning the House till lunch. After lunch, the pandemonium continued and the House was adjourned till July 12.
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Speaking to mediapersons, Leader of the Opposition Vijay Kumar Sinha said, “What happened to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s zero tolerance for three Cs: crime, corruption and communalism? He [Mr. Kumar] has compromised with corruption for the sake of being in power. The people of this State will not tolerate this”.
This is the second day of the ongoing five-day Monsoon Session that the BJP MLAs have raised the issue in the Assembly. When the Opposition MLAs created din in the House, neither Mr. Yadav nor Mr. Kumar were present. Mr. Yadav was present when the House convened in the second half of the day.
The case pertains to jobs given to people in lieu of lands allegedly gifted to RJD chief Lalu Prasad when he was the Railway Minister from 2004 to 2009.
Mr. Yadav denied all allegations levelled against him and said he knew that the BJP-led government at the Centre would name him in the chargesheet as “we’ve thrown them out of power in Bihar”.
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