SRINAGAR : Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly (LA) was today adjourned after Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members stormed into Well of the house, demanding a full debate on the functioning of Health department.
This was the first adjournment since the Autumn session started in the summer capital, Srinagar, on September 30.
Shortly before the Question Hour was to end, PDP members demanded that they should be allowed to ask supplementaries on health care infrastructure in their respective areas.
However, Speaker Mubarak Gul refused to permit all the PDP members since other members of the House also wanted to ask supplementaries.
‘You select one person from your party who will ask the supplementary since I have already allowed two PDP members, including party leader Mehbooba Mufti to ask supplementaries,’ Mr Gul said.
Members from National Panthers Party (NPP), some ruling National Conference (NC) and Congress members were also on their feet demanding that they too should be allowed to ask supplementaries.
The members were shouting something which was not audible.
However, when the Speaker ruled that he cannot allow all PDP members, (PDP) stormed into the Well of the House raising slogans, demanding a full discussion.
They alleged that Public Health Centres (PHCs) and First Aid Centres (FAC) were not being opened in their areas when there are more than enough in the constituencies of ruling party members.
‘Bandar Bant Nahee Chalagey’, ‘ Asha Ka Paisa Khanay Walay Hai Hai,’ the PDP members were shouting in the Well of the House.
Mr Gul asked PDP members, who kept on shouting near his chair, to give a notice for full discussion on the issue.
However, when the PDP members refused to resume their seats, and other members were also on their feet, Mr Gul adjourned the House for ten minutes, five minutes before the end of the question hour.
(AGENCIES)
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