Budget session | Day 2: House adjourned after obituary references
Adityanath also paid tributes to former members Mobin Ahmad Azmi, Satish Chandra, Jata Shankar Singh, Mohammad Irshad Khan, Jagdish Gandhi and Suresh Sangal.
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The state Assembly in Lucknow, on Saturday. (Express File Photo)Proceedings of the second day of the Budget session of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly were adjourned on Saturday after paying obituary references to sitting and former members.
Tributes were paid to two sitting members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly – BJP MLA Manvendra Singh from Shahjahanpur district, who passed away on January 5 and Dr Shiv Pratap Yadav of the Samajwadi Party from Balrampur district, who died on January 26.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condoled the demise of the two sitting members as well as six former members. “The demise of senior members is sad for the House,” he said.
“The death of Manvendra Singh is sad for all of us. He was a two-time MLA and was active in politics from his student days. He was dedicated towards development in his area and had worked for the upliftment of all sections of the society,” the CM said.
While paying tributes to Dr Shiv Pratap Yadav, the CM said, “All of us are saddened by his death. He has done remarkable work to educate people in rural areas. With his demise, the state has lost an able politician, who made constant efforts for the development of his area.”
Adityanath also paid tributes to former members Mobin Ahmad Azmi, Satish Chandra, Jata Shankar Singh, Mohammad Irshad Khan, Jagdish Gandhi and Suresh Sangal.
SP member Manoj Kumar Pandey said that the state has lost an able politician with Singh’s demise. Remembering Yadav, he said, “His void will always remain among us.”
Leaders of Apna Dal (S), RLD, SBSP, Congress and Jansatta Dal also paid tributes. Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana said that the state has lost an able politician and social worker with the demise of Singh.
Subsequently, the House stood in silence for a while to pay tributes to the departed souls.
BJP MLA from Dadraul in Shahjahanpur district, Singh died in Delhi following a prolonged illness. He was 70. He was an MLA from Dadraul for the second time in 2022. Having been with the Congress for a long time, Singh joined the BJP in 2017 and became the MLA from Dadraul.
SP leader and sitting MLA from Gainsari Assembly constituency in Balrampur district, Yadav died in Gurgaon at the age of 74.
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