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BHOPAL, NOV 16: Opposition BJP members stalled the proceedings of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, demanding a high-level inquiry into the beating up of a legislator allegedly in a police station early this month.
During the zero hour, Narendra Birthare and Bhupendra Singh both of BJP sought to raise the issue of beating up their party colleague Harendrajit Singh Baboo by the police at Panagar police station in Jabalpur district and demanded a house committee be constituted to probe the November five incident.
Kankar Munjare Janata Party and some of the BJP members trooped into the well of the House raising slogans. As some of them reached near the Speaker8217;s podium, Deputy Speaker Ishwar Das Rohani adjourned the House for half an hour.
As the BJP members reached the well and continued to raise slogans even after the House re-assembled, the Leader of the Opposition Gauri Shankar Shejwar was seen sitting quietly on his seat. The uproar continued, forcing the Deputy Speaker to adjourn the house till Wednesday.
Soon after the Question Hour on Monday, the House had debated on the admissibility of an adjournment motion on the issue during which the BJP members had alleged that legislator Harendrajit Singh Baboo was beaten up inside a police station in the presence of senior police officers.
Replying to the debate, Chief Minister Digvijay Singh had assured the House that stern steps would be initiated to ensure that the government officers and employees behaved properly with the elected representatives.
A similar issue had cropped up earlier in the Vidhan Sabha during this ongoing winter session when the BJP members stalled the entire proceedings for four days on the issue of beating of legislator Vijay Shah, who belongs to the Scheduled Tribes, during a demonstration in Khandwa in September.
The stalemate came to an end only after the State Government ordered suspension of R C Patel, the then superintendent of police of Khandwa, on the recommendations of the Vidhan Sabha8217;s privileges committee.
