Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 15: Speaker Mubarak Gul today took strong exception to the opposition PDP equating the Assembly with ‘theatre’ and charging the members with enacting dramas.
Without naming the PDP, Mr Gul while making a statement in the Assembly soon after his arrival from Kashmir where he had gone to attend last rites of his close aide Altaf Ahmad Wani, said he would never allow the sanctity and decorum of the House to be lowered.
“A leader has given a statement calling the Assembly a theatre and people here enacting drama and playing role. I condemn this’’, Mr Gul said, adding no member or the leader should speak about the House like this.
“It was due to many sacrifices that we got the House. In future, the leaders shouldn’t make such statements’’, the Speaker said.
The PDP was not present in the House as it has boycotted budget session of the Legislature on Wednesday in protest against Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s statement refusing to handover the body of Afzal Guru to his family.
The PDP Legislature Party had yesterday issued a statement describing the Assembly as a theatre and charged the ruling party with enacting drama.
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