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This is an archive article published on June 30, 2012

Congress stages walkout over Azam Khan’s remarks on ND Tiwari

Later,CM Akhilesh Yadav requested Speaker Prasad Pandey not to put remarks on record.

Congress MLAs today staged a walkout in Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha protesting “indignified” of state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohammad Azam Khan on former Chief Minister ND Tiwari who is embroiled in a paternity suit.

Khan made the remark in the House when Congress member Pramod Tiwari asked the Samajwadi Party government in the to launch a housing scheme for MLAs and journalists like the ones launched during the regimes of ND Tiwari and Veer Bahadur Singh in the 1980s.

In reply to Tiwari,Khan made a comment,which Congress members termed as “indignified” and demanded that they should not be put on record.

Pressing the demand,Congress members staged a walkout.

Later,Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav requested Speaker Prasad Pandey not to put the remarks on record.

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