NEW DELHI: The ethnic violence in Assam and the attack on north Indians in Maharashtra rocked proceedings in the Lok Sabha with allies of the government, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Samajwadi Party, urging for a ban on the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena.
RJD leader Devendra Prasad Yadav urged the government to ban the two Maharashtra parties for their attacks on north Indians, saying they were a threat to the integrity and unity of the country.
He also said that the party would launch a nationwide movement if the government failed to control the two organizations.
The Maharashtra government has failed to protect its citizens, Yadav said. “These reclusive fundamentalists should be seriously dealt with,” he said amidst protest from Shiv Sena MPs.
Samajwadi Party leader Ramji Lal Suman also urged the government to take strong action against Raj Thackeray’s MNS. He said north Indian job aspirants, especially from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, were subjected to brutal attack in more than 13 places in Maharashtra when MNS cadres attacked railway recruitment centers and tore up examination sheets of north Indians. Suman said the MNS could repeat its attacks.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussein charged that the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party-led state government had failed to protect the north Indian examinees.
Earlier, the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the second time yesterday as Assam MP S.K. Bwiswmuthiary staged a sit-in protest over the ethnic violence in his state that has claimed 49 lives earlier this month.
When Lok Sabha reassembled at 12 noon, Bwiswmuthiary entered the house holding photographs of the violence in Assam and walked right up to the speaker’s podium. On Friday also, he had protested because the house did not refer to the people killed in clashes in the state.
The Lok Sabha was earlier adjourned till 12 noon after disruptions in the house over the shootout in Jamia Nagar. The morning started with Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Azamgarh MP Akbar Ahmad demanding a judicial probe into the Jamia Nagar shootout in which two suspected terrorists and a Delhi Police inspector were killed Sept. 19.
Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sent a reminder to Delhi police to submit a report on the shootout in Jamia Nagar. The commission had on Sept. 23 asked police to submit the report on the incident within two weeks but has not yet heard from them.
