Hurt Mahana throws headphones before adjourning session over unruly behaviour

Lucknow: Visibly upset over the unruly behaviour by the members from the opposition and the treasury benches, UP Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana on Friday left the House stunned by throwing the wired headphones on the desk and adjourning the session for over 10 minutes.Mahana got upset over intervention by the members even when he was trying to pacify the members of the opposition benches to end the din during Question Hour. It all started when, unsatisfied with the reply by parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna, SP MLA from Machhlishahr Ragini Sonkar raised another query. While asking about migration in reservation, Sonkar insisted on a reply, which was objected to by the Speaker. He asked Ragini to sit down even as other members from the opposition also stood on their chairs. Mahana said, pointing towards the opposition benches, "It is not necessary that you all create chaos. Sit down." Even when he was pacifying opposition MLAs, members from the treasury benches, including BJP MLA from Baansdih Ketakee Singh, began objecting to opposition members' remarks. Mahana objected to it and repeated thrice, "This was not your work," while pointing towards the treasury benches. "Will you run the House?" said the Speaker while taking off the headphones and throwing them on the desk. "I am leaving the House for 10 minutes," said the visibly angry Mahana. Later, when the House assembled again, SP MLA Kamaal Farooqui pleaded with the Speaker to cool down and said that anger does not suit him. The same sentiments were echoed by SP MLA Sangram Singh Yadav and Congress MLA Aradhna Misra 'Mona', who even requested parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna to recite some couplet on the occasion to make the atmosphere pleasant. Earlier, parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna, while replying to the supplementary raised by Ragini on the backlog in the Uttar Pradesh Service Commission, said UPSC declares a calendar every year against the vacant posts, with an advertisement against the vacancy. Since 2017, Khanna said procedures to fill 47,407 vacancies were completed as per the prescribed reservation norms. "We are following in totality the rules as per the constitutional mandate," Khanna affirmed.