The Bihar Assembly on Monday witnessed uproarious scenes over the Opposition’s demand for an adjournment motion against the Centre’s Agnipath scheme. Opposition members also called the Agnipath scheme a “dictatorial step” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As soon as the proceedings of the monsoon session of the State Assembly began on Monday, the Opposition members, both inside and outside of the House, set off a din demanding an adjournment motion over the Agnipath scheme. Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) Lalit Yadav, Congress’ Ajeet Sharma, and Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist’s (CPI-ML) Satyadev Ram raised the demand for an adjournment motion over the Agnipath scheme for debate, calling it a matter related to national security, and Opposition party MLAs demanded that the Speaker should accept the motion.
However, Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha pleaded that the matter be raised after the Question Hour and, later, even allowed Mr. Yadav, Mr. Sharma and Mr. Ram to read out the text of the motion to “pacify the protesting MLAs”. But the protesting Opposition legislators kept creating uproarious scenes and trooped into the Well of the Assembly demanding a debate on the Agnipath scheme and its rollback.
