BENGALURU: The BJP MLAs in the Assembly, who attempted to distract CM Siddaramaiah during his reply to the discussion on the state budget on Thursday, were successful to some extent.
Siddaramaiah got distracted as BJP MLAs were either involved in sloganeering or doing a merry-go-round. The CM continued his speech only after the BJP members stepped out.
Even as Speaker UT Khader called the CM to give his reply on behalf of the government on the budget, BJP MLAs came to the well of the House demanding action against those who allegedly raised Pakistan slogans earlier this week. Siddaramaiah, who began his reply, got distracted owing to the chaos.
BJP members also started singing songs ridiculing the state budget. They even started moving in circles in the well of the House. They were clapping their hands and even tore copies of many Bills and threw them towards the Speaker.
When Siddaramaiah spoke about Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his tenure as Gujarat CM, BJP members started raising slogans - Jai Modi and Har Ghar Modi. Irked by this, Siddaramiah, who stopped his speech, said, “Why are you taking Modi’s name here when he is not present in the House?”
Later, when BJP members started chanting Jai Sriram, Siddaramiah stopped his budget reply and started chanting Jai Seetharam. “We do not divide husband and wife… we do not divide families. I also have constructed two Ram temples at my place. Ram is my name. Why do you act like Ram is only yours?” he asked the BJP MLAs. “BJP members have neither read the Ramayana nor Mahabharata. But claim to have built Ram Mandir in Ayodhya” he said.
BJP members then started chanting Jai Kempegowda. The CM got distracted again and told them that it was his government that started Kempegowda Jayanti and not the saffron party.