Hyderabad: All India Majlis e Ittehad ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MLAs staged a walkout from the Assembly session on Monday, March 17, accusing the Congress of not running the house democratically, after the speaker failed to address a question raised by its floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi.
He alleged that the question was changed and the question hour was abruptly ended with his question going unanswered. “Please don’t run the house like Gandhi Bhavan. Please run it like the Assembly,” AIMIM floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi advised speaker G Prasad Kumar.
With this question, Owaisi sought an answer from the state government on the details of orders issued since the formation of the government and asked for details of how many have been placed in the public domain.
As the speaker ended the question hour and began the zero hour, Owaisi protested and demanded to know why his question was “deleted” and was “not being answered.”
The speaker told him that the question hour was meant for just one hour, and because of giving time to newly-elected MLAs, 30 minutes more had been consumed by 11.30 am.
He assured Owaisi that he could ask his question on Tuesday, March 18.
“Speaker sir, if a question has not been allowed to be raised in the question hour, and if the question hour ends, the question is deemed to be answered,” he informed. In protest, he declared that AIMIM was walking out of the session.
It can be mentioned that the Congress government had accused the previous BRS government of not giving details of the GOs issued, and not putting them in public domain.
In that background, Akbaruddin Owaisi’s question was significant.
