BJP members create ruckus in Bihar Assembly over PDS

Leader of the Opposition Nand Kishore Yadav alleges that the poor are not getting fresh ration cards

BJP members today created a din in the Bihar Assembly protesting against food grains not reaching beneficiaries leading Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary to adjourn the House till the post-lunch session.

At the beginning of the zero hour began, Leader of the Opposition Nandkishore Yadav alleged that the poor were not getting fresh ration cards and did not get food grains in the past five months.

Describing this as a serious matter, Yadav asked the state government to immediately give a reply.

As soon he completed his brief speech, BJP members started shouted slogans against the state government and displayed banners and posters criticising the JD(U) government.

Over a dozen BJP MLAs trooped to the well and started shouting slogans against the state government asking it to provide food grains to the poor.

The Speaker tried to restore order, but the MLAs continued to shout in the well.

Chaudhary tried to go through zero hour and even tried to take up call attention questions, but in the end he adjourned the House till 2:00 PM.