Monsoon Session Adjourned Due to No Power Supply
The third day of the monsoon session in Maharashtra had adjourned due to no power supply. After the heavy rain in the Nagpur. Vidhan Bhavan premises was flooded and resulted as power cut in that area. As considering the safety messure, power to Vidhan Bhavan had shut down.
Proceedings in the state assembly began at 10 am even as there was no power supply. Opposition legislators started holding up mobile torches, shouting protests against the BJP-led state government. Thereafter, legislators sat on the steps of the building, raising slogans against the government on various issues.
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The electricity room was completely waterlogged and there was knee-deep water outside the residential complex of legislators and ministers. “This is the first time in the entire history of the state legislature that the session has been adjourned due to lack of electricity,” Dhananjay Munde, leader of the opposition in the state legislative council, told reporters.
“Had this happened in Mumbai, there would have been a barrage of criticism against the Sena-run Mumbai civic body. Everybody would have demanded an inquiry against the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),” Shiv Sena group leader in the house, Sunil Prabhu, told reporters.
“He the area where all ministerial bungalows and residential quarters of legislators are located is also flooded, he added.
“It is good that the government decided to have the monsoon session of the legislature in Nagpur this time. The entire state can now see what the real situation of the city is,” said Sena’s Anil Parab, a member of the state legislative council.
NCP MLA and former minister Bhaskar Jadhav said, “This government is fully exposed. It decided that the monsoon session will be held in Nagpur. Shouldn’t it make all the arrangements to put the disaster management systems in place.” Energy Minister Chandrashekar Bawankule said it was for the first time that rains had affected the legislature proceedings in such a manner. “This happened because maybe the drainage was not cleaned,” he said.
