Odisha BJP to satisfy Governor to submit grievance towards Speaker

By ANI
BHUBANESWAR: The Bharatiya Janata Party delegation will meet Odisha Governor to submit a grievance towards Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro for arbitrarily passing Bills in the home.

Speaking to ANI, the Leader of Opposition within the Odisha Assembly Pradipta Kumar Naik mentioned, “Speaker is not allowing the Opposition to speak in the houses. He is playing prejudice. We will submit a complaint with Governor regarding this. We will also request him to send back the Bills passed forcefully in the Assembly without holding a discussion in the house.”

Odisha Assembly on Saturday witnessed ugly scenes after sneakers, microphones and different objects have been hurled at Speaker Surjya Narayan Patro’s podium following noisy protests over the alleged arbitrary passage of some payments within the House.

“I am not favouring the shoe hurling incident. We could beg an apology for any such incident but I am unaware of who all were involved in the incident. But the Speaker has curtailed all the constitutional guidelines today. He is acting like a worker of a party. As a Leader of Opposition, I was not allowed to speak. The bills were passed arbitrarily amid heavy ruckus. On Monday, we will meet the Governor and apprise him about arbitrary passing of bills,” Naik had informed the home.

Three BJP MLAs, Jayanarayan Mishra, Bishnu Prasad Sethi and Mohan Majhi have been suspended for the remaining intervals of the session by the speaker as demanded by Congress and BJD MLAs.

Though it’s unclear who hurled such objects within the House, authorities chief whip Pramila Mallick had alleged that sneakers, earphone and papers have been hurled by deputy Leader of Opposition Bishnu Sethi, MLA Jaya Narayan Mishra and Opposition chief whip Mohan Majhi.After Question Hour, ruckus broke out within the Odisha Assembly because the Speaker refused to permit adjournment movement over the problem of ‘mining enterprise’ introduced by the Congress.BJP MLAs additionally created pandemonium demanding a dialogue on mining rip-off. Later, sneakers, headphones and different objects have been hurled on the Speaker’s podium.