Last Update: February 23, 2023, 15:05 IST
Samajwadi Party leaders protest during the budget session of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, at Vidhan Bhawan, in Lucknow, Monday, February 20, 2023. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)
Dissatisfied with this reply of the government, the SP members came to the Well of the House raising anti-government slogans.
Samajwadi Party MLAs on Thursday disrupted the assembly proceedings after the government rejected their demand for conducting a caste survey in Uttar Pradesh on the lines of Bihar.
SP MLA Sangram Singh raised the issue during Question Hour in the House, asking the government “whether it would start a caste census in the state on the lines of Bihar”.
The government replied in the negative, saying that it was the jurisdiction of the Center to conduct the census.
Dissatisfied with the reply, SP members disrupted the proceedings and came to the Well of the House. After this, Speaker Satish Mahana adjourned the proceedings of the House for 35 minutes.
Responding on behalf of the government, Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi said, ‘According to Article 246 of the Indian Constitution, this (census) is the work of the Center. The census is done by the center itself.
Shahi said that Uttar Pradesh has come a long way and “we do not want to take UP towards Bihar”.
“There is lawlessness and corruption in Bihar, there is dominance of ‘parivarvadi’ (dynastic politics) in giving jobs. We do not want to take Uttar Pradesh to that side (Bihar) where there were irregularities in the purchase of fodder. Together everyone’s development, everyone’s faith and everyone’s effort.
Shahi said, ‘We do not want to take UP towards backward states.’
Dissatisfied with this reply of the government, the SP members came to the Well of the House raising anti-government slogans.
After repeated requests by the SP legislators to return to their seats, Speaker Mahana adjourned the House for 15 minutes and later extended it for another 20 minutes.
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