Uproar in J&K assembly, Opposition stage walkout
The Jammu and Kashmir government was blamed for its failure to ease tensions in Kathua district on Monday.
Jammu, Jan 10: Opposition members walked out of the state assembly on Tuesday following an uproar over tension between two communities in Kathua district.
As the question hour was nearing its end, independent MLA Engineer Rashid stood up and started shouting over the alleged failure of the Jammu and Kashmir government to ease tensions between the two communities where clashes occurred on Monday.
Speaker Kavinder Gupta tried to restore order, but the MLA was soon joined by others from the National Conference (NC) including former ministers Ali Muhammad Sagar and Mian Altaf Ahmed.
Altaf
said
it
was
not
for
the
first
time
that
tensions
had
resulted
in
clashes
between
the
communities.
He
also
accused
the
speaker
of
trying
to
silence
Rashid,
who
he
said,
was
raising
pertinent
issues
in
the
house.
Heated arguments were also heard between Peoples Democratic Party minister, Abdul Rehman Veeri and Sagar. The opposition finally walked out of the house shouting slogans against the speaker whom they called a RSS speaker.
IANS