A joint house committee to probe into the ruckus created by some of the Opposition members during the trust vote of the BJP government on October 11, 2010, has recommended suspension of 15 Congress and Janata Dal (S) MLAs from the House.
The panel, set up by the Speaker K G Bopaiah, and headed by ruling party MLA M P Appachu Ranjan recommended suspension of eight MLAs from membership for a year and seven MLAs for six months for various reasons like indulging in unruly behaviour by disobeying all House rules and procedures, showing disrespect to the Speaker among others.
In its 287-page report tabled in the House today, the panel recommended suspension of Rahim Khan, Kakaso Panduranga Patil, U T Khader, N A Harris, (all Congress) B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan, H C Balakrishna, C S Puttaraju, M T Krishnappa (all JD-S) for one year. It recommended suspension of B K Sangamesh, Suresh Gowda, P M Ashok, H P Manjunath, (all Congress), Bandeppa Kashempur, K Raju and K P Bache Gowda (all JD-S) for six months.
Bopaiah constituted the seven-member House Committee to submit a report recommending suitable action against the 15 opposition MLAs, identified for creating unruly behaviour in the Assembly during the October 11 trust vote. BJP members had filed a petition for taking action on these members.
They had alleged the Congress and JD(S) MLAs lowered the dignity of the House by creating unruly scenes and used unparliamentary language against the Speaker during the trust vote, necessitated by the withdrawal of support to the government by 19 MLAs.
It may be recalled that Speaker of Maharashtra assembly had suspended five members of Shiv Sena for shouting in the house using unparliamentary language, for one year.
The Opposition members, who have been demanding discussion on corruption since last two days, staged a walk-out from the House raising slogans against the government. The members from Congress and JD(S), later, staged a dharna in front of the Vidhana Soudha till the evening to press for the resignation of the BS Yeddyurappa government over the alleged land scandals.
The Speaker conducted the proceedings as per the day’s agenda, without the presence of the Opposition.
The D Hemachandra Sagar-chaired special house committee, which went into the untoward incidents during the election of the Speaker on December 30, 2009, was also tabled.
