BJP MLAs absent: MP House adjourned

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL, NOV. 24. The Madhya Pradesh Assembly was adjourned till Monday shortly after question hour this morning without even taking up the calling attention notices listed for the day due to the absence of the leading Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party members, who boycotted proceedings for the second consecutive day in protest against the ``police lathi-charge in which three BJP MLAs were injured'' at Morena recently.

The BJP members had raised this issue in the House yesterday stalling the entire day's proceedings. Addressing newsmen in the Assembly press room this afternoon, the Chief Minister, Mr. Digvijay Singh, questioned the BJP members' role and said instead of stalling the House proceedings and wasting public money they should resolve this issue through talks.

The Chief Minister said he was present at Morena when the incident involving the BJP MLAs occurred.

The three BJP MLAs - Mr. Munshilal, Mr. Bansilal Jatav and Mr. Sewaram Gupta - have received injuries but it has to be ascertained how Mr. Digvijay Singh said that there was no lathicharge.

Narrating the sequence of events, the Chief Minister said these MLAs had been advised by district authorities to meet him at the Circuit House to hand over a memorandum on the prevailing drought situation but they were adamant and wanted to organise a road blockade and display black flags during his Morena visit. The BJP MLAs might have stumbled over some objects and hurt themselves when the police was trying to clear the road for his vehicle to pass through, the Chief Minister told newsmen.

While emphasising that the BJP MLAs were free to get an inquiry conducted into this incident by a House committee, the Chief Minister said the State Government is also ready to get the MLAs, who have been injured in the Morena incident, treated any where in the State or outside.

Making light of the whole episode, the Chief Minister said Mr. Munshilal had to be lifted and brought to the House by some BJP MLAs but on his way back everyone noticed how he was walking without any assistance. The Chief Minister further said that he had met the Governor today and apprised him this incident.

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