The opposition Congress Thursday raised the teachers strike in the Assembly and demanded a discussion on the matter while the BJP raised the issue relating to alleged corruption in sapling plantation forcing Speaker P K Amat to adjourn the House for an hour.
The members of the both Congress and BJP rushed to well of the House as soon as it assembled for the Question Hour and asked the Speaker to allow discussion on their issues.
Both of them shouted anti-government slogans. Congress members attempted to climb on the Speaker's desk leading Amat to adjourn the House till 11.30 am.
"We have given notice for a discussion on the teachers issue. The Speaker may hold an all-party meeting to discuss on the issue. The government cannot behave like a deaf and dumb. Let not this House become non-functional," leader of Opposition Narasingha Mishra of Congress said during Zero Hour.
BJP Legislature Party leader K V Singhdeo said: "The government is not holding discussion with the agitating teachers. Therefore, you (Speaker) need to intervene and sort out the issue."
BJP member Pradip Purohit also raised the issue of alleged corruption in the sapling plantation and demanded a discussion in the House.
The BJP members picked up the sapling plantation corruption case a day after senior BJD leader and former minister Damodar Rout outside the assembly hinted at alleged Rs 100-crore scam in the plantation of saplings in the state.
Rout had also alleged massive irregularities in providing job cards to the beneficiaries under the Centrally-sponsored Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS).
The block grant school and college teachers are on indefinite dharna since August 16 demanding regular grant-in-aid, equal facilities as the teachers in government schools get and service conditions.
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