Congress members created a ruckus in the House on the two issues first forcing Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal to adjourn the House for 45 minutes and later for the day at least 70 minutes ahead of the scheduled time.
The trouble began when leader of opposition Sunil Kumar Jakhar stood up during the zero hour to draw the attention of the Assembly towards alleged deteriorating law and order situation in the state.
He said that it appears that Badal is obsessed with construction of memorials having religious overtones.
Without mentioning the raising of a memorial in memory of operation Bluestar by Shiromani Gurudwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC) adjacent to the Golden temple complex in Amritsar, Jakhar said, "Badal is playing with fire and this is going to cost the hard earned peace of Punjab".
He sought a statement from the government on the issue of raising of the memorial.
Jakhar pulled up the government saying that the issue of memorial had been taken up by the present government to divert the attention of people from the pertinent issues like unemployment, poor fiscal position and intake of drugs by youths.
When Jakhar was unrelenting on the issue, certain members from the treasury benches, including minister Bikram Singh Majithia and SAD MLA Daljeet Singh Cheema tried to stop the leader of opposition, but Badal pacified his flock of MLAs and asked them to listen to Jakhar. MORE
