Singh Chautala, who walked in after the Question Hour, claimed the presence of Congress in-charge (communications) of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Surjewala during release of the party's manifesto for Punjab elections showed that he endorsed the proposal against the SYL canal.
Singh Chautala, who walked in after the Question Hour, claimed the presence of Congress in-charge (communications) of All India Congress Committee (AICC) Surjewala during release of the party's manifesto for Punjab elections showed that he endorsed the proposal against the SYL canal.
Notably, Surjewala had joined other senior leaders of the Congress, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, when the election manifesto for the Punjab polls, which were held on February 4, was released in Delhi in January this year.
Chautala claimed that Surjewala was "against SYL waters for Haryana" and while passing some personal remarks against him, requested the Speaker that such persons "who compromise state's interests be sent out of this august House".
Other legislators of the INLD came in support of their senior leader and raised slogans against Surjewala and the Congress party.
As the ruckus continued, Speaker Kanwar Pal adjourned the House for 20 minutes and called both the ruling and opposition legislators in his chamber for a meeting.
After the first break, the House was adjourned for another 30 minutes, but when it resumed, the Speaker at the outset urged the members to exercise restraint and not create ruckus.
He then asked an INLD member to read out his Calling Attention Notice given by him on the issue of cattle smuggling.
Still the INLD legislators were up on their legs and targeting Surjewala.
The Speaker then named the INLD legislators suspending them for the remainder of the day and again adjourned the House for 15 minutes.
Despite the adjournment, the main opposition members continued to occupy seats for nearly 13 minutes and after lot of pleading from the police officers, the House marshals and the Vidhan Sabha staff, they left the House.
However, on the request of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ram Bilas Sharma, the suspension of the INLD legislators was later revoked.
Finance Minister Abhimanyu in a dig at Surjewala's maiden appearance in the House during the ongoing budget session today, said, "He has come in guest appearance and is now using threatening gestures towards the Chair and raising questions." Surjewala again pleaded before the Chair: "You are the custodian of this House and you have to protect our rights...
The minister (Grover) should apologise or else the House cannot run in such a situation."
At this, the BJP members said Surjewala was misleading the House.
As the ruckus continued, the Speaker told members both from the ruling benches and the opposition not to use unparliamentary language in the House and exercise restraint.
"I urge both ruling and opposition members not to use any unparliamentary word. It does not behove members that I have to expung the remarks later. Both sides, ruling benches and the opposition should exercise restraint. People, who have elected you expect that you will raise issues pertaining to them here in this House, but they too will be disappointed by this situation," the Speaker lamented.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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