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The MLAs of the Congress-led UDF had been lifted and faraway from outdoors Speaker’s workplace.
Thiruvananthapuram:
Chaotic scenes performed out at Kerala Meeting at the moment throughout a protest by Opposition MLAs outdoors the Speaker’s workplace. Stunning visuals confirmed safety guards lifting the MLAs and eradicating them from the constructing.
The MLAs of the Congress-led United Democratic Entrance (UDF), who lay on the bottom refusing to budge, had been lifted and faraway from outdoors Speaker AN Shamsheer’s workplace.
Chief of Opposition within the Meeting V D Satheesan informed reporters that 4 MLAs — Rema, A Ok M Ashraf, T V Ibrahim and Saneesh Kumar — had been injured within the face-off.
“The democratic rights of the Opposition are constantly denied within the Home. We tried to current the difficulty of the latest brutal assault confronted by a minor woman as an adjournment movement however its discover was denied by the Speaker with none legitimate purpose,” he mentioned, in accordance with information company PTI.
Senior legislator and former house minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan was pushed, and MLA KK Rema’s hand was twisted and dragged on the ground by four-five ladies marshals, the Opposition legislators alleged.
Mr Satheesan alleged that Speaker AN Shamsheer was functioning in a biased method beneath stress from Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. He additionally mentioned the Chief Minister was fearful of questions and needed to wind up the continuing session quick.
The MLAs had been protesting after an adjournment movement to debate the security of girls was not accepted. This got here a day after one other adjournment movement to debate police motion towards Congress councillors protesting over the Kochi dumpyard fireplace was not taken up.
When the Speaker introduced at the moment that the discover for an adjournment movement to debate ladies’s safety couldn’t be taken up, Opposition MLAs began elevating slogans and waving banners. They then walked out of the Home and marched to the Speaker’s workplace.
The legislators had been blocked by Watch and Ward employees, who handle safety within the state legislature and report back to the Speaker. As many MLAs tried to maneuver ahead, the marshals stopped them.
