SP stages walkout in Vidhan Parishad

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party (SP) created ruckus demanding rollback of power tariff hike on the second consecutive day on Friday in the Vidhan Parishad. The house, however, conducted business amidst noise.

The party also staged a walkout over law and order and increasing number of abandoned animals.

Raising the matter under the rule 105, SP’s Naresh Chandra Uttam, Vasudev Yadav and Heera Lal Yadav demanded the government to withdraw the tariff hike which they said was the highest-ever. Congress member Deepak Singh also supported the SP on the issue.

They demanded the chair to allow a debate on the tariff hike issue immediately. When the demand was not accepted, they trooped into the well shouting slogans against the government. The treasury bench, in the meantime, disposed of items listed for the day and house was adjourned till Monday.

THE SP MEMBERS ALSO STAGED WALKOUT OVER WHAT THEY CALLED A SPURT IN CASES OF CRIME AGAINST WOMEN IN THE STATE.

Earlier, the SP members also staged walkout over what they called a spurt in cases of crime against women in the state. Ahamad Hasan and Anand Bhadoriya drew the house’s attention to the rape of a cancer patient in Sarojinagar in the state capital. They claimed there had been increase in cases of crime by almost 40% in the state.

Leader of the house and deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma, however, said SP members had no crime statistics to support their claim. He claimed there had been decrease in all the major crimes since the BJP government came to power eight months ago.

Sharma said in the 735 encounters that had taken place so far, 173 criminals had been injured and 23 killed.