House raps JVM MLA for slur on Speaker

House raps JVM MLA for slur on Speaker

Vijay Deo Jha | Ranchi

Treasury Bench condemned the unsavoury remark of JVM MLA Samresh Singh flung at Assembly Speaker CP Singh during the Budget session on Monday.

On being denied a call attention motion, a peeved Samresh pointed finger at the Speaker and said: "You do not***to be…" and the House plunged in commotion.

Deputy Chief Ministers Raghuwar Das and Sudesh Mahato, along with others, demanded unconditional apology from him. Visibly upset CP Singh condemned the behaviour of Samresh: "Cannot you adopt some other way to make your point…you jump in the Well. You tear paper. Is this the way?"

The Treasury Bench continued to raise slogans alleging that Samresh came to Assembly only to disturb the Budget session.

His statement was expunged and Samresh expressed regret over his behaviour. However, Samresh fetched little support even from his party MLAs, including Pradeeep Yadav.

Later on, Samresh said: "The Speaker is pro-BJP and pro-Government and I am answerable to my people who elected me and not to the Speaker."

He wanted to raise the issue of the custodial death of a person a few years back whose kith and kin were not given compensation despite the announcement of the Government.

But it was not the only issue that rocked the House. Before the start of the session, the Opposition raised slogans against the State Government for not recommending a CBI investigation into corruption cases. They displayed placards demanding a CBI investigation.

Chief Minister Shibu Soren remained absent from the session even after he had to face the House during 'Chief Minister's question hour.'

The Government erred again during the second half of the session when it moved to seek a debate over Institutional Finance Report without putting it before the House. The Opposition stalled the move of the Government and termed it as the breach of the privilege of the House. Later on, the Government dropped the move.

Similar uproar was reported outside the Assembly, where hundreds of Congress workers were struggling to assert their role as the Opposition.

"This Government is anti-people and it has no mandate to rule. The Government has no vision and has duel character," leaders lashed on the NDA-JMM-AJSU Government.

Participating in the demonstration were State Congress co-incharge Abdul Mannan, State Congress president Pradeep Balmuchu, senior Congress leader Radhakrishna Kishore, leader of the Opposition Rajendra Singh, along with Congress MLAs, party media incharge Sailesh Sinha, Alok Dubey, Rakesh Sinha, Ajay Rai and others.

"We are demonstrating against the State Government as a part of our commitment towards the people," Balmuchu said.

The party accused the Government of having dual faces over price hike issue. "In New Delhi, BJP MPs walk out from Parliament against price hike of commodities and petroleum products. In Jharkhand, they increase VAT on diesel. People will soon divorce this Government," former Congress MLA Sukhdeo Bhagat said.

Kishore on the other hand blamed the Government hands-in-glove with the Maoists in the wake of the operation Green Hunt in Jharkhand. "Chief Minister Shibu Soren is not willing to continue this operation so why he has been giving misleading statements over this," Kishore said.

He was referring to the statement where Soren claimed that the State Government was not taken in confidence before launching this operation.

Congress prominently raised four issues. It demanded to declare Jharkhand famine-hit, CBI investigation of the corruption charges, early Panchyat election, roll back of VAT on diesel prices, payment of insurance money to the farmers and early relief.

Congress leaders must have returned home wondering over poor turn out of crowd.