Assembly adjourns as opposition Cong disrupts house

Jaipur, Mar 15 (UNI) The proceedings in the Rajasthan Assembly could not be conducted for the third day today as the opposition members kept disrupting the house on the issue of compensation to the farmers who lost their crops in the unseasonal rain and hailstrom.

The Speaker Sumitra Singh adjourned the house till 1400 hrs.

With the commencement of the session this morning the opposition Congress members holding samples of the crops perished in the hailstrom in their hands started shouting slogan. Meanwhile, one of the Congress members Mangalram Godhara has started an idefinite fast in the well of the house to press the demand.

With repeated requests for maintaining decorum in the house fell on deaf ears, the Speaker announced the adjournment of the house.

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