Uttarakhand: Saying that mountains are not made to listen to abuses, she tore papers in the assembly, the assembly speaker got up from her chair in anger
As soon as the proceedings of the 5th day of the budget session of Uttarakhand Assembly began on Saturday, a ruckus broke out on the issue of Pahad Maidan given by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal on Friday. Among the opposition MLAs, Badrinath MLA Lakhpat Butola said that the mountains are not made to hear abuses. Expressing his displeasure by saying this, he tore papers in the House.
Uproar in the Assembly over the minister’s statement
The fifth day of the ongoing Uttarakhand budget session in Dehradun began with the same ruckus that was left in the House on the fourth day. Yesterday, during a discussion on rule 58, the statement given by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal on the issue of Pahad Maidan created a ruckus by the evening, while today as the House began, Leader of Opposition Yashpal Arya was the first to stand up. He expressed his displeasure over the statement given by the Parliamentary Affairs Minister regarding the mountains. During this, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister clearly said in the House that he had not used the words that are being said. There was a ruckus in the House over this.
Ministers of the ruling party did not support Premchand Agarwal
During this, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister stood up to present his side, while he also asked his other fellow ministers to stand with him. But no minister stood with him. Dhan Singh Rawat, Subodh Uniyal and Satpal Maharaj were sitting next to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal. But no one took the trouble of standing in support of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal.
Opposition attacked Minister Premchand Agarwal
During this, independent MLA Umesh Kumar also presented his point. He said that people coming from the mountains of Uttarakhand are in many big positions in the country. This entire state belongs to the people of Uttarakhand. During this, Umesh Kumar clearly told Parliamentary Affairs Minister Premchand Agarwal that he has used wrong words. He should apologize. During this, from the opposition, Congress MLA Pritam Singh and then Badrinath MLA Lakhpat Butola presented their point.
Lakhpat Butola tore the papers in anger
Lakhpat Butola said that have we the MLAs of the hills come to this house to be abused. He told all the MLAs that if they go to their area and see, they will know the anger of the people. He said that the people of the area are saying that you are going to the Vidhan Sabha to be abused. During this, the Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha Ritu Khanduri got very angry. She got so angry that she even stood up from the chair. She told Badrinath MLA Lakhpat Butola not to make this house a hub of politics. Now calm down this matter. Even after this, Butola said that if the people of the hills are abused in this house, then he does not want to stay in such a house. On this, the Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha Ritu Khanduri said that if you want so, then you can go out of the house. On this, he started going out of the house by tearing the paper and sat separately from his party.
