Kerala Assembly witnesses unprecedented protest in opposition to Speaker A N Shamseer

By PTI

TRIVANDRUM: The Kerala Assembly complicated witnessed an unprecedented protest on Wednesday as a piece of opposition UDF legislators took out a march to the workplace of Speaker A N Shamseer and staged a sit-in there accusing him of being biased within the House.

Soon after their discover for adjournment movement on ladies’s safety was denied a nod within the House, the opposition staged a walkout and marched to Shamseer’s workplace elevating slogans and holding a banner of their palms saying ‘Speaker ought to present justice’.

Tension prevailed within the complicated for a while as Watch and Ward employees tried to take away the opposition MLAs by power from the premises of the Speaker’s workplace and the latter objected to it firmly.

Watch and Ward employees, also referred to as home marshals, oversee the safety of the State Legislature and work beneath the management of the Speaker and the Secretary to the Legislature.

When heated arguments and a scuffle between the legislators and the safety personnel ensued, Chalakudy MLA T J Saneesh Kumar Joseph developed some uneasiness and was shifted quickly to the medical room.

The Congress-led UDF alleged that apart from the Watch and Ward personnel, some ruling legislators and the personnel employees of some ministers assaulted them.

Senior legislator and former house minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan was pushed, and MLA Okay Okay Rema’s hand was twisted and dragged on the ground by four-five ladies marshals, they alleged.

Leader of Opposition within the Assembly V D Satheesan advised reporters within the media room that 4 of their MLAs — Rema, A Okay M Ashraf, T V Ibrahim and Saneesh Kumar — suffered accidents through the incident.

“The democratic rights of the Opposition are continuously denied in the House. We tried to present the issue of the recent brutal assault faced by a minor girl as an adjournment motion but its notice was denied by the Speaker without any valid reason,” he mentioned.

Charging that the Speaker was pressured by the Chief Minister to curtail their rights, the Leader of Opposition additionally alleged that Vijayan was petrified of questions and wished to wind up the continued session at any value to keep away from this difficulty.

He additionally alleged that the Chief Minister was an admirer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was making an attempt to mimic what Modi was doing to the MPs in Parliament.

He demanded rapid motion in opposition to the ruling CPI(M) MLAs Sachin Dev and H Salam and the deputy chief marshal, who had been accused of assaulting the opposition legislators.

TRIVANDRUM: The Kerala Assembly complicated witnessed an unprecedented protest on Wednesday as a piece of opposition UDF legislators took out a march to the workplace of Speaker A N Shamseer and staged a sit-in there accusing him of being biased within the House.

Soon after their discover for adjournment movement on ladies’s safety was denied a nod within the House, the opposition staged a walkout and marched to Shamseer’s workplace elevating slogans and holding a banner of their palms saying ‘Speaker ought to present justice’.

Tension prevailed within the complicated for a while as Watch and Ward employees tried to take away the opposition MLAs by power from the premises of the Speaker’s workplace and the latter objected to it firmly.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Watch and Ward employees, also referred to as home marshals, oversee the safety of the State Legislature and work beneath the management of the Speaker and the Secretary to the Legislature.

When heated arguments and a scuffle between the legislators and the safety personnel ensued, Chalakudy MLA T J Saneesh Kumar Joseph developed some uneasiness and was shifted quickly to the medical room.

The Congress-led UDF alleged that apart from the Watch and Ward personnel, some ruling legislators and the personnel employees of some ministers assaulted them.

Senior legislator and former house minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan was pushed, and MLA Okay Okay Rema’s hand was twisted and dragged on the ground by four-five ladies marshals, they alleged.

Leader of Opposition within the Assembly V D Satheesan advised reporters within the media room that 4 of their MLAs — Rema, A Okay M Ashraf, T V Ibrahim and Saneesh Kumar — suffered accidents through the incident.

“The democratic rights of the Opposition are continuously denied in the House. We tried to present the issue of the recent brutal assault faced by a minor girl as an adjournment motion but its notice was denied by the Speaker without any valid reason,” he mentioned.

Charging that the Speaker was pressured by the Chief Minister to curtail their rights, the Leader of Opposition additionally alleged that Vijayan was petrified of questions and wished to wind up the continued session at any value to keep away from this difficulty.

He additionally alleged that the Chief Minister was an admirer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and was making an attempt to mimic what Modi was doing to the MPs in Parliament.

He demanded rapid motion in opposition to the ruling CPI(M) MLAs Sachin Dev and H Salam and the deputy chief marshal, who had been accused of assaulting the opposition legislators.