The Bihar Assembly was adjourned until lunch today after opposition members staged a protest over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list.
As soon as the House convened, CPI-ML legislator Satyadev Ram raised the SIR issue, sparking an uproar. Opposition MLAs from the RJD, Congress, and Left parties rushed to the well of the House during Question Hour, shouting slogans and attempting to overturn tables.
Despite repeated calls for order, Speaker Nand Kishore Yadav was forced to adjourn the session.
The opposition MLAs, dressed in black, had disrupted proceedings with their slogans, making it impossible for the Speaker to restore order.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar criticized the opposition’s conduct, dismissing their protest over SIR as irrelevant and highlighting his government’s welfare achievements.
He questioned the logic of consistently wearing black attire and urged opposition leaders to introspect, pointing out that “such coordinated dress code from Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and other opposition members was unprecedented in Bihar politics.”
Despite repeated warnings by the Speaker to sit down and maintain order, opposition members continued to storm into the well, jostling with marshals and disrupting the reporters’ gallery.
The chaos persisted until the Speaker adjourned the assembly for lunch within five minutes of the disruption.
On the opposition protest, BJP MP Manan Kumar Mishra said, “This is very unfortunate. The Election Commission has taken a very good reformative step, and it is a significant step…”
