Opposition's Price-Rise Protest With Placards Angers Lok Sabha Speaker

Wednesday, 20 July 2022Newsdesk

Speaker Om Birla was rather blunt today with Opposition members protesting inside the Lok Sabha against price rise: "The House is for discussion and raising issues, not for raising slogans and creating chaos."

New Delhi, 20 July 2022

As per news report of NDTV, Speaker Om Birla got upset after Opposition MPs gathered in the Well of the House, holding packets of curd, butter and buttermilk, questioning the levy of Goods and Services Tax on essentials that were earlier out its ambit. They want that all other business of the House be suspended, for a discussion on price rise in particular. But the Speaker has insisted that he'll give time in Zero Hour, earmarked for raising issues of "urgent public importance" after giving notice.

Source - NDTV