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CPI (M-L) MLAs create ruckus in Bihar Assembly

Patna: Protesting against the alleged framing of their senior colleague Ramnaresh Ram in a case, agitated CPI (M-L) MLAs, supported by their RJD colleagues, created an uproar in the State Assembly, forcing Speaker Udai Narain Choudhary to adjourn the House for half-an-hour in the post-lunch session.

As the House re-assembled after lunch recess, dissatisfied with the State Government’s statement in the pre-lunch session that police had approached the court for deletion of the word ‘naxalite’ prefixed to the name of Ram in the FIR, the CPI (M-L) members trooped into the well of the House and demanded that the State Government order “unconditional withdrawal” of the case.

They banged the reporters’ desk and continued slogan-shouting against the Government for allegedly falsely implicating an octogenarian leader like Ram.

Taking serious exception to the party MLA Amarnath Yadav’s behaviour banging the desk repeatedly despite his repeated requests, the Speaker got Yadav marshalled out.

The din, however, continued unabated with the RJD members too entering the well in support of the CPI (M-L) MLAs seeking withdrawal of the FIR against Ram. As the opposition members did not relent and continued shouting of slogans in the well without heeding to his repeated requests to allow the slated business, Choudhary adjourned the house for half-an-hour.

Earlier during the pre-lunch session, Deputy Chief Minister S. K. Modi made a statement informing the members that the police had petitioned the court seeking deletion of the word ‘naxalite’ prefixed to the name of senior CPI (M-L) MLA Ram in a criminal case in Bhojpur district.

Modi said police had approached the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in Ara, the headquarter town of Bhojpur district, seeking deletion of the word ‘naxalite’.

Modi said Ram was one of those named in the FIR registered against CPI (M-L) activists in connection with the attack on policemen during demonstration at the Collectorate there on August 20, 2000, in which 25 policemen, including the then Dy. SP were injured. Two persons were killed as police had to open fire to control the situation, he added. “The IO of the case has already moved the court on June 29, 2009 following the directive of the Superintendent of Police for deletion of the ‘naxalite’ word,” Modi added. -- PTI

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