Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakrishnan on Thursday censured four Opposition Congress MLAs for climbing on to his dais and shouting slogans on yesterday''s protest against denial of an adjournment motion over police lathicharge and MLA Shafi Parambil sustaining an head injury during the Assembly march taken out by KSU on Tuesday.
Opposition MLAs--Roji M John, Anvar Sadath, Eldhos Kunnappally and IC Balakrishnan were censured as per Rule 53 of Assembly Proceedings, the Speaker said stating that the members'' action was unhealthy and disrespectful to the House. Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala said the Speaker took a unilateral decision against the MLAs by not keeping his assurance that he will discuss with the Opposition to resolve the impasse. "Our genuine demand is to take action against the police officials who lathicharged on one of the members of this House.
Unfortunately, the Speaker failed to understand our feelings and ignored our demand. Hence, in protest against your stand we boycott the House," Mr Ramesh said.
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