The Karnataka Legislative Assembly witnessed pandemonium on Friday with opposition BJP MLAs staging a protest by climbing on the podium and throwing papers at Speaker U T Khader as the Assembly passed the 4% Muslim Quota Bill.
Marshals had to forcefully evict the BJP MLAs who had surrounded the Speaker's chair, PTI reported.
#WATCH | Ruckus erupts in Karnataka Assembly as BJP MLAs enter the Well of the House and also tear and throw papers before the Speaker's chair(Video source: Karnataka Assembly) pic.twitter.com/giejoDxCXF
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The Muslim Quota Bill - providing 4 percent reservation in public contracts - was passed in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, News18 reported.
The BJP termed the Bill “unconstitutional" as the party said that it would challenge it legally. The saffron party, led by opposition leader R Ashoka, shouted slogans against the government for providing 4 percent reservation to Muslims in public contracts.
Amid the chaos, the Assembly also passed the budget and the bills to increase the salaries, pensions and allowance of MLAs, ministers and the CM.
Earlier, the BJP was protesting from the well of the house against an alleged attempt to "honey trap" a minister and demanded a judicial probe into it even as the chief minister read out his reply to the budget discussion.
BJP MLA Bharath Shetty said, “Instead of discussing the honey trap scam, the Chief Minister was busy presenting the 4 per cent Muslim bill and hence we protested. The government MLAs also tore papers and threw books at us; we didn’t harm anybody."
(With inputs from PTI)
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