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Kerala
minister claims members come to assembly drunk
Saturday December 18, 2010 03:27:38 PM,
IANS
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Thiruvananthapuram: State Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy has landed in a soup after
suggesting that many legislators attended the assembly in an
inebriated state.
She made this comment Thursday while inaugurating an anti-liquor
campaign launched by feeder organisations of the Communist Party
of India-Marxist (CPI-M) at Kannur.
She said that many members came drunk in the morning itself,
probably because they find it difficult to speak in the assembly
without being intoxicated.
Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan, however, said that he
had not come across any such instance.
Leader of Opposition Oommen Chandy, who recently completed 40
years as a legislator, too echoed Achuthanandan, saying he has not
witnessed such behaviour.
Addressing the media in Kozhikode Saturday, State Parliamentary
Affairs Minister M.Vijayakumar said that he too does not feel this
was the case.
"Now maybe I will check closely if such a situation prevails," he
said.
Chief whip of the opposition and senior Congress legislator
Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said that it was Sreemathy's
responsibility to come out with the facts and the issue would be
taken up as a breach of privilege of the house.
The Kerala assembly is scheduled to meet Dec 21 and this is
expected to be one of the issues to be raised by the opposition.
Five-time veteran opposition legislator P.C.George said
Sreemathy's statement was insulting.
"Maybe it is the legislators from the treasury benches that she is
referring to because she is closer to them than the opposition
legislators. We will surely ask her to either name who the
legislators are or withdraw her statement," George told IANS.
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