Patna: The Bihar assembly on thursday witnessed uproarious scenes with opposition MLAs shouting anti-government slogans and staging a walk-out after the Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary rejected their adjournment notices on the fodder scam and the failure of the cooperative banks to make payment to farmers for procurement of paddy.
Raising the issue in the House during zero-hour, the opposition members, including the leader of the Opposition in the house Abdul Bari Siddiqui, said the state cooperative banks had allegedly failed to make payment to the farmers for procurement of paddy. "All the cooperative banks are facing serious financial problems", Siddiqui said.
They demanded that the chair must accept the adjournment notice on the issue for a debate. As the Speaker ruled that he had rejected the notice as it was not in order, the opposition MLAs stood in their seats and started shouting anti-government slogans before staging a walk-out.
The opposition members during the zero-hour also raised the issue related to multi-crore rupees fodder scam and urged the chair to allow their adjournment notice on the issue in the wake of alleged reports that a complaint has been filed against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and JD(U) leader Shivanand Tiwari. The House once again plunged into a bedlam as the Speaker rejected the notice saying it was not in conformity with the rules of legislative business.
Choudhary also said the matter be expunged from the proceedings of the house. The opposition MLAs later walked out of the House in protest. They also held demonstration at the portico of the house. PTI