Patna, March 19: A senior Bharatiya Janata Party MLA today staged a protest of sorts when his request to the Speaker to try and bring the Opposition back to the Assembly was condemned as “unsolicited”, by the Nitish Kumar government.
Begusarai MLA Bhola Prasad Singh, a former deputy Speaker, is so annoyed with the government’s intervention that he has decided not to attend the rest of the budget session, which concludes on March 28.
Instead, he would be “introspecting” over the matter.
During the pre-lunch session, Singh, known for his literary comments on the House floor, reminded Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary of how the chief minister had “authorised” him to find a solution to the Opposition’s indefinite boycott. The boycott entered the eighth day today.
“You should request the government to withdraw the censure motion against five Opposition members,” Singh advised. Immediately thereafter, minister of parliamentary affairs Ramashray Prasad Singh intervened.
While he admitted that he appreciated the senior member’s “feelings”, he reminded Singh that the deadlock continued due to the Opposition’s “stubbornness”. Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi also pointed out that the government was ready to withdraw the censure motion, provided the five tendered an apology before the House. After this, a visibly-upset Begusarai MLA left the House.
Bhola Singh later told The Telegraph that an examination of the matter was necessary because the government had failed to live up to its Constitutional responsibility of ensuring the Opposition’s presence in the House.
“They (government) brought a censure motion against the entire Opposition and moved against the five members, as an afterthought. So, House attendance is extremely poor and the Quorum is hardly met. I was appealing to the Speaker’s good senses and not to the government’s. The interventions were unsolicited. Minister Bijendra Yadav added that I was free to go and ‘self-introspect’. So, I will do that for the rest of the session,” he added.
Begusarai MLA Bhola Prasad Singh, a former deputy Speaker, is so annoyed with the government’s intervention that he has decided not to attend the rest of the budget session, which concludes on March 28.
Instead, he would be “introspecting” over the matter.
During the pre-lunch session, Singh, known for his literary comments on the House floor, reminded Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary of how the chief minister had “authorised” him to find a solution to the Opposition’s indefinite boycott. The boycott entered the eighth day today.
“You should request the government to withdraw the censure motion against five Opposition members,” Singh advised. Immediately thereafter, minister of parliamentary affairs Ramashray Prasad Singh intervened.
While he admitted that he appreciated the senior member’s “feelings”, he reminded Singh that the deadlock continued due to the Opposition’s “stubbornness”. Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi also pointed out that the government was ready to withdraw the censure motion, provided the five tendered an apology before the House. After this, a visibly-upset Begusarai MLA left the House.
Bhola Singh later told The Telegraph that an examination of the matter was necessary because the government had failed to live up to its Constitutional responsibility of ensuring the Opposition’s presence in the House.
“They (government) brought a censure motion against the entire Opposition and moved against the five members, as an afterthought. So, House attendance is extremely poor and the Quorum is hardly met. I was appealing to the Speaker’s good senses and not to the government’s. The interventions were unsolicited. Minister Bijendra Yadav added that I was free to go and ‘self-introspect’. So, I will do that for the rest of the session,” he added.
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