Assembly ruckus forces Assam Guv to cut short speech

Guwahati, Feb 11 : The last Budget session of the Assam Assembly ahead of the April-May elections, got off to a tempestuous start on Thursday, with the Opposition MLAs displaying placards over various issues and trooping into the well of the House, forcing Governor Jagdish Mukhi to cut short his customary speech.
The Opposition Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) legislators began shouting slogans against the “misgovernance of the BJP-led government including corruptions” soon after the Governor started reading his speech on the opening day of the three-day Budget session.
The agitated lawmakers rushed to the well of the House and continued their slogans protesting against various issues including “deteriorating law and order situation” in the poll-bound state.
Amid the noisy scenes, the Mukhi left the House after reading only a few pages of the 94-page written speech.
Finance and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is likely to place the vote-on-accounts in the House for the first few months of the 2021-22 financial year on Friday.
Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami later invited all the members of the house to the customary tea party, but the Congress and the AIUDF boycotted the event protesting the Speaker’s decision of stripping of the status of the Leader of the Opposition from Congress Legislature Party leader Debabrata Saikia “in excuse of lack of strength of members”.