The Chhattisgarh Assembly today witnessed noisy scenes on the issue of outsourcing to fill the vacant posts of teachers in government schools, as main Opposition Congress accused the state government of not giving job opportunities to local youths.
They shouted anti-government slogans, forcing Speaker Gaurishankar Agrawal to adjourn the proceedings twice.
Raising the issue after Question Hour, Congress legislator Amit Jogi said the interest of local unemployed youths is being ignored by the state government and sought a discussion on the issue through adjournment motion.
Interrupting him in between, Speaker Agrawal said that he had already rejected the adjournment motion notice on the issue at his cabin.
Unsatisfied with the ruling, the Congress members started sloganeering demanding the state government to take back the decision of outsourcing.
Despite repeated attempts when they remained unpacified, the SpeakeradjournedtheHouse for 5 minutes. As theHouse resumed, Jogi and his party members again raised the issue saying why government was trying to escape from discussion on such a very serious matter which deals with the fate of thousands of youth in the state.
The Speaker again disallowed the discussion citing the issue has already been discussed in the ongoing session.
Noisy scenes persisted over the issue which prompted the Speaker toadjournthe House for second time for five minutes.
When the House re-resumed the Leader of Opposition TS Singhdeo and senior Congress MLA Satyanaryan Sharma raised the same issue asking the Speaker to at least allow discussion on the admissibility of the adjournment motion on the issue.
Amid pandemonium, the Speaker allowed Jogi to speak on the issue for two minutes.
In his speech, Jogi said the state government had cited that they opted for outsourcing after no response was received to repeated advertisements inviting applications to fill the vacant school teacher posts in remote (Naxal affected) areas.
Either they consider the youths of Chhattisgarh undeserving or coward, he alleged.
The advertisements appeared in papers published from other states then how local youths would get to know about it, Jogiasked.
Meanwhile, he was interrupted by Agriculture Minister
Brijmohan Agrawal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ajay Chandrakar who claimed that the matter had already been discussed in the House through a call attention notice and hence it can't be re-discussed.
Subsequently, Jogi and some Congress members hurled book-shaped documents in the House and moved into the well and put them on the table of Principal Secretary of the Assembly.
They claimed that the documents contain the names of unemployed youths of the state.
Congress members, however, picked up documents and resumed to their seats following Speaker's directives.
The Speaker condemned the act of Congress members and hoped that such things would not be repeated in the House.
Thereafter, minister Agrawal and Chandrakar citing the rules and regulations of the Assembly whichprovides for automaticsuspensionofmemberswho try to disrupt proceedings by reaching the well of the House,said the Congress members who did so by shouting slogans and hurling documents stand automaticallysuspended.
They further demanded those Opposition members should admit their suspension or the Speaker should take necessary action against them as per the rule.
However, Congress members defended their act saying their intention was not to troop into the well of the House but they just went there to put up the documents.
Later, the Speaker rejected the ruling party members' demand and said he had already condemned the act of Congress members and no punishment was more than that.
