JK Assembly adjourned amid uproar

Srinagar, Aug 21: Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly was adjourned by Speaker Tara Chand for 15 minutes after witnessing uproar and noisy scenes.

As the House assembled for taking up the question hour today, the main opposition National Conference (NC) and Panthers Party (PP) were on their toes.

Despite repeated pleas by the Speaker to the agitated members to resume their seats, they kept shouting.

The NC members were demanding suspension of the question hour and taking up the Khandroo fire and subsequent blasts in 21 Field Ordinance Depot, in which 21 people had died and 30 others wounded besides thousands migrated from their houses in about a dozen villages.

However, the Speaker called the first question of the day but the NC members keep shouting and did not resume their seats.

The PP party members stormed into the well of the House after Speaker Tara Chand refused to suspend the question hour and take up the issue of police action against the Jammu Dogra migrants in Jammu region.

Later, the Speaker adjourned the house for 15 minutes.

UNI