Patna: RJD today asked its MLAs to explain their position for not not being present in Bihar assembly during the vote on an opposition-sponsored cut motion on the budgetary demands for the state Rural Development department yesterday.
" We have asked our MLAs who remained absent in the house at the time of voting on the budgetary demands for the state Rural Development Department for 2010-11 yesterday", state RJD chief Abdul Bari Siddiqui said.
Siddiqui said the party MLAs should have given prior information about their inability to attend the proceedings at the time of voting on the budget.
When his attention was drawn to the absence of leader of opposition in the house Rabri Devi and party`s deputy leader in the house Shakeel Ahmed Khan, Siddiqui said Rabri
Devi had taken prior permission for not being present, while Khan was "seriously ill"
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