Assembly adjourned after oppn disrupts proceedings

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The opposition LDF Thursday disrupted the proceedings followed by which the Speaker announced adjournment of the house for the day.


The opposition accused the UDF legislators of scoffing at them as they were staging a walkout over the Speaker’s refusal of leave for an adjournment motion raised against the government decision to grant approval to all the paddy fields and wetlands that were converted into regular lands dumping mud and gravel for constructional and commercial purposes before 2005.


The opposition, protesting against the refusal of leave for the motion, started shouting slogans disrupting the proceedings, some of them even sitting in the well of the House.


Though the Speaker said that he would take appropriate action after inspecting the video footage of the proceedings, the opposition refused to calm down and continued the interruption, which eventually led to the Speaker announcing the adjournment.


It was Mullakara Ratnakaran MLA who moved notice for the adjournment motion on the matter. Raising the motion, he accused that the move of the government was to topple the existing law. He also alleged that the government concealed its own decision taken in February on the matter.


Adoor Prakash, Minister for Land Revenue, Land Reforms told the Assembly that the decision of the government to bring amendment to the existing law was based on complaints received during the mass contact programme of the Chief Minister.