Srinagar, July 27: The ruckus in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly today triggered a political slugfest with the PDP accusing the NC of adopting “dictatorial” methods and the Speaker of being partisan while the ruling party slammed the opposition outfit for trying to gain publicity over the Shopian case. Cautioning members against dishonouring the House by indecent behaviour, an angry Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone, who was targeted by PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti, told reporters he will observe complete impartiality and not allow the PDP members to convert the house into a “fish market”.
“The dictatorial methods of the NC or its partisan Speaker cannot prevent the party from its duty towards the people of the state,” Mehbooba said after she and 19 of her party MLAs were evicted from the assembly for their conduct after they tried to raise the issue of Shopian twin murders. “The Speaker inspite of allowing unlisted issues by BJP and ruling NC members on a day when only obituary references were on the table refused to allow the PDP members to speak on the burning issue of human rights violations,” she said.
Condemning the PDP”s unruly behaviour, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said “You cannot win elections or hearts of the people by disturbing proceedings, riding on desks and snatching mike and papers from the speaker.” “If anybody has the impression that they will earn recognition through this tactics, they are only befooling themselves,” he said in an apparent reference to the shocking act of Mehbooba wrenching a mike out of the Speaker”s podium and throwing it away.
—-PTI—