Opposition continues to disrupt House for second day

Jharkhand Assembly was today adjourned twice in the morning session as the Opposition created noisy scenes for the second day on the alleged irregularities in the 5th Jharkhand Public Service Commission.
The leader of opposition, Hemant Soren, rejected Parliamentary Affairs Minister Saryu Roy's suggestion that the government was ready to debate over the Opposition's adjournment motion against the issue.
Soren, the working president of the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JMM) and a former chief minister, demanded that the recently announced JPSC results be "rejected" and a CBI probe be ordered into the alleged irregularities.
Saying the case is pending before the High Court, the minister expressed concern over the credibility of the statements emanating in the House by the Opposition, which might send a wrong message.

The minister added that a debate under Rule 54 could enable the government place point-wise details as demanded by the opposition.
Speaker Dinesh Oraon adjourned the House for about half-an-hour for the meeting. On resumption, Soren, however, said the opposition was not satisfied with the outcome of the meeting.

The opposition JMM, Congress and JVM once again disrupted the proceedings, forcing the Speaker to adjourn the House for a second time till 12.50 pm.
The Opposition had disrupted the House proceedings the entire day on February 26 on the issue.
Senior Congress MLA Sukhdeo Bhagat had on Friday said that the opposition was demanding a probe at whatever level and till then the results must be "put on hold".

However, the JMM reiterated that its demand was to scrap the results and a CBI probe be ordered into the alleged irregularities in conducting the 5th JPSC examination.
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The joint committee, headed by AssemblySpeaker K B Koliwad and Legislative Council Chairman D H Shankaramurthy was constituted to bring uniformity in the rules andprocedures followed in both the Houses and streamline it.
On the commencement and conclusion of the sitting, the committee suggested that sittings of the House shall, unless theSpeaker otherwise directs, ordinarily commence from 10:30 hours to 14:00 hours (morning sitting) and 15:00 hours to 18:00 hours (afternoon sitting).

Noting that reply was compulsory, it says replies toall the questions listed for oral and written answers shall be furnished at least by 15:00 hrs on the day prior to the date on which the question is listed for answer.
Provided that if the House is adjourned sine die, for any reason, before the actual date of adjournment as per the provisional programme, the questions admitted for the period shall be deemed as tabled on the last day of the closure of the House, and answers to the same shall, unless otherwise permitted, be furnished to the assembly secretariat within 15 days from the closure of the session as per the bulletin for onward transmission to Members, it added.

Defining certain House terms, the report said "quorum" means one tenth of members of the total number of members of the House, while "sitting" means the sitting of the members of the House for transacting business on any day from its commencement till the adjournment of the House for the day.
"Zero Hour" means the period immediately after the question hour, laying of Secretary's report, papers to be laid on the table and committee's reports, if any and before the list of business of the day is entered upon.
During this, any member who wishes to raise any matter of urgent public importance that has occurred between the sittings and which cannot be raised under any other provisions of the rules with the permission of the Speaker can do so.