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Patna, (Bihar Times): Bihar Speaker Uday Narayan
Chaudhary on Thursday banned the entry of any human-
or animal-driven vehicle inside the premises of the
Bihar Assembly. This followed the arrival of three RJD
MLAs in a bullock cart with sugarcane in their hands.
The novel aim was adopted to draw the government’s
attention towards the plight of the sugarcane growers
and the sugar mills in Bihar.
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The three RJD MLAs who reached the assembly at 10:30
in the morning were Akhtar-ul-Iman, Rajesh Singh and
Bima Bharati. Surprisingly the security men on the
gate did not stop them as there is no specific
instruction in this regard. For a few minutes there
was a funny scene at the main portico as the bullock
cart blocked the space.
However, the speaker ruling came after the issue was
raised by the former deputy speaker, Bhola Singh of
the BJP, in Zero Hour. He said that the dignity of the
House should be maintained. Today someone is coming on
bullock-cart, tomorrow someone else may come on the
donkey-back, he said.
The Speaker considered it as a serious matter and put
a ban on the entry of bullock-cart and rickshaw inside
the premises. Some MLAs of Bihar assembly like
Akhtar-ul-Iman of RJD often travel by rickshaw and
auto-rickshaw in Patna.
Coming on rickshaw was a common practice till a couple
of decades back. Even till 2000, that is creation of
Jharkhand, Late Mahendra Singh of CPI ML used to come
on foot or rickshaw to the Bihar assembly. He was MLA
from Bagodar, which now falls in Jharkhand.
Now MLAs coming on rickshaw will have to alight on the
main gate and would be ferried to the portico of the
assembly on a special vehicle.
Whatever be the Speaker’s ruling the three MLAs
managed to draw some attention as they raised
anti-government slogans and demanded immediate relief
for the sugarcane farmers. It was the symbolic protest
to highlight the plight of growers due to non-purchase
of sugarcane.The government is not paying attention
towards reviving sick sugarmills, they said.
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