Snag in mics of Pb assembly forces two adjournments

Technical snag in microphones installed in the House forced the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker to adjourn the proceedings of the assembly twice today.
Immediately after the Question Hour here, when the Speaker took up the matter of no confidence motion moved by the Leader of Opposition Charanjit Singh Channi, the microphone developed some problem.
The microphone developed some snag when Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal started speaking on the issue.
Though Badal was heard saying allow the motion, Congress MLA Ajitinder Singh Mofar took a jibe saying it seems the microphone has been deliberately turned off.
After Speaker's microphone also developed problem, he adjourned the House at 11:06 AM for ten minutes.

But even after the House proceedings were resumed, the microphones continued to face technical snag, forcing the Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal to adjourn the House till 12:30 PM.

Later when the House resumed, former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Rajinder Kaur Bhattal said that it was for the first time that the microphone of Speaker developed some problem.
"It has been for the first time in the Vidhan Sabha said that speaker (microphone) of Speaker went off," she quipped.
Atwal said he was also feeling sorry for this.
Later, when the discussion on contribution of Baba Saheb B R Ambedkar on the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary celebrations was going on in the assembly, the electricity went off.