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Uproar in UP Assembly as SP MLAs protest: ‘Deputy CM should quit over Neta-ji remarks’ | Lucknow News

Uproar in UP Assembly as SP MLAs protest: ‘Deputy CM should quit over Neta-ji remarks’ | Lucknow News

THE STATE Assembly witnessed an uproar on Monday, when Samajwadi Party (SP) legislators entered the well of the House demanding resignation and apology from Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Medical and Health Brajesh Pathak over his remarks that the SP claimed were aimed at SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav. Even as Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna pointed out that Pathak did not take anyone’s name, SP MLAs alleged that the Deputy CM’s remarks were “disrespectful” and demanded that Pathak “quit”. The house was adjourned for over an hour as the SP MLAs refused to go to their seats. Later, the issue was settled after Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna asserted that even the ruling party has “utmost respect for Mulayam Singh Yadav and would never disrespect him.” Story continues below this ad During the Question Hour earlier, while replying to questions raised by the Opposition on health infrastructure , he asked if SP MLAs follow the words of “Neta Ji” [as Mulayam was known], and when he got an affirmative response, he went on …

Language politics to the fore in U.P. as BJP govt., Oppn. exchange barbs on promotion and neglect

Language politics to the fore in U.P. as BJP govt., Oppn. exchange barbs on promotion and neglect

Recently, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly announced that proceedings of the House would be available in four regional languages as well as English. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO ‘Language politics’ has defined the course of developments in Uttar Pradesh in the past week with the Assembly in session and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi visiting his parliamentary constituency, Rae Bareli. The Congress leader injected language into his politics of social justice during the two-day visit on February 20-21, accused the ruling BJP and its ideological mentor RSS of attempting to prevent marginalised people from learning English. Describing the language as the “biggest weapon”, he said it is a tool of mobility that allows someone to go anywhere, be it Tamil Nadu, Japan or Mumbai, or work in any company. “People belonging to the BJP-RSS say that one should not learn the English language. They want you not to learn English because they don’t want Dalits, Adivasis and the poor to come where it is used,” Mr. Gandhi said addressing a ‘Dalit …