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Scuffles, brawls in parliament, state
assemblies
Wednesday September 05, 2012 08:28:16 PM,
IANS
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The Rajya Sabha Wednesday witnessed
high drama as a scuffle broke out between a Samajwadi Party member
Naresh Agarwal and BSP member Avtar Singh Karimpuri as a bill on
quotas in promotions for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in
government jobs was being tabled.
Some of the other similar incidents in parliament and the state
assemblies:
March 13, 2007: The Left parties and DMK virtually came to blows
with each other in the Lok Sabha, as then union shipping, road
transport and highways minister T.R. Baalu introduced the Indian
Maritime University Bill, 2007 which proposed to shift the
maritime university from Kolkata to Chennai.
Nov 24, 2009: A brawl over a religious slogan disrupted the Rajya Sabha in 2009 when then home minister P. Chidambaram tabled
the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the 1992
demolition of the Babri Masjid, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs
broke out into cries of "Jai Shri Ram".
Objecting to the slogans Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary
Amar Singh, tried to push BJP's S.S Ahluwalia, but was in turn
violently pushed back.
Oct 7, 2010: Chaos broke out in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly
on remarks of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah who said that "the
state (Jammu and Kashmir) has acceded through an agreement to
India and not merged with it". The BJP and National Panthers'
Party (NPP) MPs, tore papers and shouted slogans.
A BJP legislator sustained a head injury in the melee. Four
legislators, including three from BJP and one from NPP, and a
marshal sustained minor injuries. Some BJP legislators also
complained of hypertension.
Dec 29, 2011: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) member Rajniti Prasad
tore the Lokpal Bill after snatching it from Minister of State for
Personnel, V. Narayanasamy.
The incident took place in Rajya Sabha. Prasad suddenly charged
towards the minister's seat, ignoring the directions of Hamid
Ansari, who was in the chair.
Oct 21, 1997: During then chief minister Kalyan Singh's trust
vote, the members threw mikes and papers at each other in the
Uttar Pradesh assembly. Many legislators were injured and even
speaker Kesari Nath Tripathi was injured in the melee.
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