Opposition stages walkout over Adityanath’s remarks

As the House met for the day, Opposition members from various parties rose from their seats and reached near the well protesting against Mr. Adityanath's remarks. File (Source: PTI)

On the last day of the first part of the Budget Session, the Lok Sabha saw a walkout by Opposition members just before Question Hour commenced to protest against remarks made by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wasn’t elected back in U.P., the State would become “Kashmir, Kerala or Bengal.”

Opposition MPs from the Congress, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), the National Conference (NC), the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), and the Communist Party of India (CPI) all walked out, deeming the remarks to have been made in a pejorative sense.