Chaos in Himachal Pradesh Assembly; Speaker suspends 15 BJP MLAs

As many as 15 Bharatiya Janata Party BJP MLAs of Himachal Pradesh were suspended from the House by Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania on Wednesday allegedly for creating ruckus in his chamberThe 15 BJP MLAs who were suspended from the House include Jai Ram Thakur Vipin Parmar Randhir Sharma Hans Raj Vinod Kumar Janak Raj Balbir Verma Lokinder Kumar Trilok Jamwal Surinder Shourie Puran Chand Dalip Thakur Inder Singb Gandhi Ranbir Nikka and Deep RajThe BJP legislators were suspended by the Speaker after the State Parliamentary party affairs minister Harshwardhan Chauhan moved a proposal recommending the expulsion of the MLAs from the houseThe Himachal Pradesh Assembly was adjourned till 12 pm amid disruptions with opposition members staging protests in the well of the HouseThe BJP however has dubbed this a move by the Congress to prevent its government from toppling ahead of the Budget sessionBJPs winning Rajya Sabha candidate Harsh Mahajan said Congress Government is toppling So such attempts are being made to suspend them These are delay tactics and are followed in every Vidhan SabhaCongress has dismantled from here All the attempts they make now will fail BJP will form the Government hereNine MLAs who crossvoted are in my supportIn fresh trouble for the Congress government in Himachal Pradesh Vikramaditya Singh a state minister and the son of the former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Wednesday stepped down from his positionAll I would like to say is that under the current circumstances it is not correct for me to continue as a part of the government So I have decided that I am resigning from the Council of Ministers I am resigning as a minister Singh saidThe trouble for the government comes at a time when the Assemblys annual Budget session is going on and ahead of voting on the state Finance Bill in the AssemblyUnion Minister Anurag Thakur who is an MP from the state says the Congress government had not fulfilled any of its promisesCongress formed govt in Himachal Pradesh by giving big and fake promises After the formation of the govt none of those promises were fulfilled People used to ask questions when Congress MLAs went to their constituenciesthey had no answers to giveno work was done Congress own MLAs were facing a lot of difficulties why did Congress MLAs abandon their own party within 14 months what was the compulsion one of the reasons is that they gave ticket to a nonHimachali person Anurag Thakur saidThe BJP is pressing for division voting on the passing of the Budget after it is introduced in the assembly If Congress is unable to see the Budget through the government in the state will fallThe Congress has 40 MLAs while the BJP has 25 in the 68member state assembly The remaining three seats are held by independentsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever