Eleven Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs were suspended from Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly on Monday for entering into the well of the House. The treasury benches and the Opposition BJP created noisy scenes in the House during the Zero Hour of winter session.

When Kondagaon Congress MLA Mohan Markam was raising the issue of the delay of signing of the reservation amendment bills during the Zero Hour, the BJP MLA Brijmohan Agrawal said that a situation like constitutional breakdown has risen in the State as the ruling Congress party is making derogatory remarks against the Governor. The MLAs from the ruling Congress party and the Opposition BJP started raising allegations against each other over the reservation issue and created uproar in the House. Speaker of Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Dr Charan Das Mahant suspended the proceedings of the House for 10 minutes.

Amid uproar Mohan Markam said that the Governor has not signed the reservation amendment bills even after 32 days of passing the bills. The Congress MLA alleged that the BJP is hatching a conspiracy to stall the reservation amendment bills. Cabinet Ministers Kawasi Lakhma, Amarjeet Bhagat, Dr Shiv Kumar Dahariya, Congress MLA Brihaspati Singh and other Congress MLAs tried to corner the opposition BJP over the delay in singing of the reservation amendment bills in the House, saying that the people from ST, SC, OBC and EWS are deprived of getting benefits of reservation because of delay.

As the uproar continued over the delay in the reservation amendment bills, Assembly Speaker Dr Charan Das Mahant warned that decorum of the Governor and Raj Bhavan must be maintained and any derogatory comment made on the Governor will be perceived as against the decorum of the House, he added.

While the ruling party raised the issue of not signing the reservation bill in the House, the opposition BJP questioned as to why the report of the Quantifiable Data Commission was not tabled in the House. Meanwhile, the treasury benches and the opposition BJP had heated exchanges in the House. When the proceedings of the House started again, the BJP and the ruling Congress started leveling allegations on each other over the reservation issue. The Chair again suspended the proceedings of the House for five minutes. When the proceedings resumed, Cabinet Minister Dr Shiv Kumar Dahariya said that the opposition BJP was trying to prevent the tribal Congress MLAs from speaking over the reservation issue in the House. 11 BJP MLAs including Leader of Opposition in Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Narayan Chandel, Dharamlal Kaushik, Dr Raman Singh, Brijmohan Agrawal, Ajay Chandrakar entered into the well of the House and started raising slogans against the Congress government. Speaker Dr Charan Das Mahant suspended all the BJP MLAs for entering into the well of the House and adjourned the House till 11 am on Tuesday. Later, the Congress MLAs raised slogans against the opposition BJP in the Vidhan Sabha campus. The BJP MLAs also staged a protest near the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Vidhan Sabha campus.

Talking to media persons, State Congress President and Congress MLA Mohan Markam said that the BJP is hatching a conspiracy to stall the reservation amendment bills and the Governor has not signed the bills even after 32 days. Talking to the media persons at the Vidhan Sabha campus, BJP MLA Brijmohan Agrawal said that the Congress government has not provided the report of Quantifiable Data Commission to Governor, Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly and MLAs so far and the government is only misleading the people of the State over the reservation issue and the Congress party does not want to give benefit of reservation to the people of the State. He demanded that the Congress government should bring a white paper about the stand the State Government had taken and submitted before the High Court regarding the 58 per cent reservation, which was stuck down by the High Court of Chhattisgarh, the BJP MLA said.