Haryana Assembly witnesses multiple adjournments amid Congress call for discussion on Bhiwani playschool teacher murder case

Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda intervened in this, saying, “It is during our tenure that we ensured FIR must be registered for every crime that took place”.

Countering this, Saini hit back, “They are doing cheap politics. They should not be doing so”.

The body of a 19-year-old playschool teacher who had left home on August 11 to visit a nursing college in Singhani to inquire about admissions was discovered in a field in Bhiwani’s Singhani village on August 13. Amid widespread protests over her death, the Haryana government had handed over the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation.

“It is not only the murder case…it is the overall law and order situation in the state. Every other day, a murder or a rape or a heinous crime is taking place in Haryana. We want a discussion on the overall law and order situation in Haryana. The Speaker should accept our adjournment motion and allow a discussion on the floor of the House. We want a discussion on law and order,” Congress legislator B B Batra said.

Amid continuing protests by Congress MLAs, Speaker Harvinder Kalyan said, “It is not a neighbourhood congregation. This is the House. It is not correct…what is happening here. You people did not let Question Hour function. This House will function as per the rules and regulations only. This hooliganism is not good. It is condemnable behaviour.”

Hooda said that members of the House were “agitated and aggrieved”. “They want a discussion on law and order. It is not condemnable behaviour. Members want discussion as per rules and regulations,” he said.

Even as the Speaker insisted that Opposition members adhere to protocol and the sequence of business in the proceedings, Saini launched a scathing attack on Hooda’s tenure as chief minister. He referred to the 2012 Rohtak orphanage case in which several women inmates and staff members had alleged sexual exploitation.

“In that case too, FIR was not even registered till the daughters escaped and reached the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights,” he said. Saini also referred to the case of a 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly gangraped during the Congress tenure, where no FIR was registered till the matter had come to light.

Earlier, Congress leaders entered the Well of the House with posters that said, “What happened to Beti Bachao Beti Padhao?”, referring to the BJP’s flagship slogan in Haryana. Despite repeated requests by the Speaker and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mahipal Dhanda, the Congress legislators did not relent and continued the sloganeering.

In an apparent reference to proceedings in the Lok Sabha, Speaker Kalyan warned Congress legislators that he will not let them adopt “the same methods/ conventions that have been adopted in Delhi”.