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Five Sena
MLAs suspended for a year, opposition furious
Thursday December 02, 2010 04:26:23 PM , IANS
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Nagpur:
Five Shiv Sena legislators were Thursday suspended from the
Maharashtra assembly for a year following their unruly behaviour
in the house, prompting opposition leaders to say the government
was "running scared" as major scams were up for discussion.
Sanjay Rathor, Sharad Patil, Ravindra Waikar, Abhijit Adsul and
Ashish Jaiswal were also barred from entering the premises of the
state legislature buildings in Nagpur and Mumbai for a year, till
the next winter session. The Shiv Sena members were demanding
adequate compensation for farmers who had suffered huge losses
during unseasonal rains over the last two months.
The winter session of the Maharashtra assembly started here, the
state's second capital, Wednesday.
A visibly upset Parliamentary Affairs Minister Harshavardhan Patil
told journalists that the stringent preventive action was taken as
the legislators' unruly behaviour in the house could continue even
in the future.
The suspension came in the wake of chaotic scenes in the assembly
Wednesday and Thursday when the members climbed on the speaker's
podium, grabbed the speaker's mace and waved it in the air.
They are also accused of insulting the constitution, a copy of
which they allegedly mishandled, besides throwing away legislature
documents and files.
The resolution to suspend the five legislators was moved by Patil
and accepted by the house by a voice vote.
Following the uproar after the suspension order, the house was
adjourned for the day.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena combine was
furious at the disciplinary action.
Shiv Sena's leader in the house Subhash Desai termed the
suspension as an "attempt" by the ruling Democratic Front
government of the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to
reduce the strength of the opposition as major scams were due to
come up for discussion in the legislature.
"They (the government) are running scared. There are serious
issues like the missing papers from the Adarsh housing society
scam, the Lavasa Lake City scam, Narayan Rane's land scam,
Manikrao Thakre's mining scam and other major issues which are
scheduled to come up for discussions during the winter session,"
Desai told mediapersons Thursday afternoon.
One Sena member - Sanjay Rathor - was already suspended Wednesday
for the entire session, Desai noted and asked why the government
waited till the second day to act against the other four.
He said it was "a conspiracy hatched overnight" to take advantage
of the situation in the house and push through the suspension of
the remaining legislators Thursday.
BJP leader Eknath Khadse added: "We strongly condemn this move and
feel that the government is crushing the voice of the legislators
who were demanding justice for the farmers who suffered on account
of the unseasonal rains in the state."
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