Speaker forced to flee from MLAs in Bihar Assembly

As soon as Zero Hour commenced, the Janata Dal, CPM and Bharatiya Janata Party members barged into the well pressing different issues creating a bedlam in the House. State Finance Minister Shankar Prasad Takriwal put the first supplementary budget amid the drama forcing the Speaker to adjourn the house till lunch.

While JD members were agitated over the withdrawal of security and denial of residential accommodation to its member Nawal Keshore Roy, the BJP raised the issue of grave flood situation in North Bihar, while the CPM protested the bifurcation of Bihar by carving out a separate state of Jharkhand asproposed by the BJP-led coalition government at the Centre.

As soon as the Speaker adjourned the House, Dal members chased him to his chamber shouting slogans against the chair and the state Government.

They demonstrated in front of the Speaker’s chamber shouting slogans “down with Speaker. Killer Speaker come out. Conspiracy to kill legislators will not be tolerated.”

Later, some Dal legislators forced their entry into the chamber to find the Speaker locked in the ante-room. They even shouted slogans inside the chamber and Nawal Keshore Roy staged a dharna.

Water resources minister Jagdanand Singh and public health engineering department minister Munsilal Rai helped to mediate with the Dal members squatting in the chamber. The matter was resolved following the State Government’s decision to provide security and residential accommodation to the MLA by tomorrow. The Speaker was confined in the ante-room for seventy minutes.