The Odisha Assembly witnessed noisy scenes Friday with members of both treasury and opposition benches raising slogans over fuel price hike and statewide teachers' strike.
Two minutes into the Question Hour, Speaker P K Amat adjourned proceedings till 3 pm, expressing his inability to run the House amid the ruckus.
Earlier in the day, Amat had accepted a notice by the Congress for an adjournment discussion on the issue of statewide strike by block-grant school and college teachers.
As soon as the session began, the Congress MLAs rushed to the Well of House, seeking an explanation for the strike.
The noise grew louder after the Congress asked the BJD government to take a note of the demands of the agitating teachers, who have been sitting on a dharna since August 16.
The BJD members, however, resorted to sloganeering over fuel price hike, forcing Amat to adjourn the Assembly proceedings till lunch.
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Immediately after the adjournment, the treasury bench members were seen joining the ruling BJD's two-hour protest rally against fuel price hike near different petrol pump outlets across the city.
Leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra of the Congress held the BJD MLAs responsible for disrupting the House.
"We fail to understand as to how the Speaker adjourned the House till 3 pm. If there was disruption in the House, he could have adjourned the proceedings till 11.30 am. But, he deferred the session till 3 pm, apparently to help the government in avoiding a discussion on teachers' strike," Mishra told reporters outside the Assembly.
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