UP session Day 1 sees BSP bedlam
The Budget Session of the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha was on Monday marked by bedlam as the Bahujan Samaj Party disrupted the governor’s address and created unruly scenes, forcing governor B.L. Joshi to read only the opening and closing paragraphs of his address to the joint session of the state legislature.
The BSP members, on the opening day of the Budget Session, displayed their power to disrupt the House despite having only 80 members in the House of 403.
As soon as the governor arrived to address the joint session of the state legislature, BSP members jumped on to their feet and held aloft banners denouncing the SP “misrule”.
The BSP members wore blue caps that had slogans written on them.
The BSP MLAs climbed on to the reporters’ desks and raised slogans asking the governor to go back and demanded dismissal of the SP government.
Placards with slogans like “Bana transfer ka vyapar, loot rahi hai SP sarkar” and “Dhai mahine me SaPa kushasan, Yaad aaya Maya sushasan” were waved around by BSP members.
Some members had also had a scuffle with the House guards while some threw paper balls at the governor.
Congress members were also seen holding up banners demanding lowering of VAT on petrol, better facilities in wheat procurement, improvement in the law and order situation and steps to contain the power crisis.
The House was adjourned within five minutes and BSP members walked out to enact a replay of the whole scene in the corridors for the benefit of TV channels.
Later talking to reporters, Leader of the Opposition Swami Prasad Maurya defended the action of his colleagues and said that his party had the mandate to raise issues concerning the common man.
“This government is a government of the mafia and we cannot allow it to plunder the state in the name of transfers. The government has failed on all fronts and is pursuing anti-people policies,” he said.
Meanwhile, the governor’s address was a reaffirmation of the Samajwadi Party manifesto and said that owing to political degradation, several incidents that took place during the previous BSP government brought shame to the entire state.
“People got nothing except stones, statues and memorials. This state had witnessed corruption, atrocities on innocent people and jungle raj, unparalleled in the country’s history during the last five years,” the governor said in his address.
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