Congress MLA Vikram Madam today walked out of the House after he was not allowed to put forward his point, on the issue of establishing an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Gujarat, during the Question Hour of the state Assembly's ongoing budget session.
During a heated debate on bringing the AIIMS to Gujarat, Madam got irked after Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel remarked that a sitting Congress MLA did nothing to bring the AIIMS to Gujarat when he was a Lok Sabha MP.
"Congress heard about AIIMS only after the BJP came to power at the Centre. A Congress MLA present in the House did nothing to bring AIIMS to Gujarat when he was an MP," said Patel, who handles the Health portfolio, while attacking the Congress during the Question Hour.
Since Madam was a Lok Sabha MP from Jamnagar between 2009 and 2014, he objected to Patel's comments and urged Speaker Rajendra Trivedi to allow him to put forward his point to counter Patel's remarks.
Madam rushed near the Well of the House asking for a chance but was asked by the Speaker to get back to his seat first.
Though Madam, who won from Khambhalia seat of Devboomi-Dwarka district in the recently held Assembly polls, followed the order, he was not allowed to speak after which he walked out of the House.
Patel, responding to the question about AIIMS raised by Congress MLA Harshad Ribadia, said that it was the prerogative of Centre to decide which city would get an AIIMS.
He informed the House that the state government had shown two locations each near Vadodara and Rajkot to a central committee as potential sites for the AIIMS, which will comprise a multi-specialty hospital, a medical college and a research centre.
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