Kerala Assembly adjourned for day after uproarious scenes
Thiruvananthapuram, June 6 : Uproarious scenes were witnessed in the Kerala Assembly on Wednesday as an aggressive Congress-led opposition sought permission to move an adjournment motion while Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan said it cannot be done.
Due to the ensuing stalemate, the Speaker hurried through the business listed for the day and adjourned the house.
Soon after Question Hour, the Speaker said that he could not allow senior Congress legislator V.D. Satheesan to speak on a custodial death reported in April.
"The rules are very clear and since the case is sub judice, the Rules of Procedure of the house do not permit to allow for a presentation and hence this cannot be allowed," the Speaker said.
Unhappy with the reply, Leader of Opposition and Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala dubbed the decision most unfortunate.
As the Speaker stood his ground, the opposition was up in arms and rushed near the Speaker's podium and shouted slogans.
Following this, Speaker Sreeramakrishnan adjourned the house for a brief period. When the house reassembled, the deadlock continued, forcing the Speaker to run through the listed business and adjourn the house for the day.
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Women's quota bill would have ensured defeat of democracy, Constitution: Aaditya Thackeray
Mumbai (PTI): Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday said that the passage of the women's quota bill would have ensured a "total defeat of democracy", alleging that the legislation, linked with a delimitation exercise, was a political tool designed to reduce the voice of states.
Thackeray, in a post on X, claimed that the Bill would have amended the Constitution for the political means of the ruling regime to increase seats, reduce the voice of many states and enable the gerrymandering of constituencies to ensure unfair victories.
"The very amendment that would have ensured the total defeat of democracy and the Constitution in India stands rejected by the unity of the Opposition MPs," he wrote.
The legislation should have been called "Delimitation to ensure unfair victory Bill", the former minister said, adding that there was a genuine need to enable 33 per cent reservation for women in the current number of seats.
"Now, it is up to the government to ensure that it is implemented in the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha for the 2029 elections and all elections across India, if that is the real intent of the government," he wrote.
A Constitution Amendment Bill to implement reservation for women in legislatures in 2029 and increase the number of Lok Sabha seats was defeated on Friday in the Lower House.
While 298 members voted in support of the Bill, 230 MPs voted against it. Out of 528 members who voted, the Bill required 352 votes for a two-thirds majority.
According to the Constitution Amendment Bill, Lok Sabha seats were to be increased to a maximum of 850 from the current 543 to "operationalise" the women's reservation law before the 2029 parliamentary polls, following a delimitation exercise based on the 2011 Census.
