Guwahati, March 29: The Assam Legislative Assembly witnessed protests both inside and outside the House on Wednesday over disqualification of Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha.

Inside the Assembly, there was complete ruckus after the Congress introduced an adjournment motion to discuss the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha following a Gujarat court’s verdict.

Before the house started for the day, Congress MLAs wearing black dresses, carrying placards in their hands by leader of opposition Debabrata Saikia took out protest march to the Assembly. Inside the Assembly, Leader of the Opposition Debabrata Saikia raised the notice and stressed that the Constitution was violated by the disqualification of Gandhi.

“We want to send a resolution to the President of India requesting her to uphold the Constitution. The Constitution is same for all and the executive must act fairly to protect it,” said Saikia.

Responding to this, leader of the house and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “It’s unprecedented that we’re expressing opinions on a judicial matter here. I know that a decision was taken at Congress Legislature Party last night to create noise here.”

This led to massive ruckus by entire opposition with Congress MLAs joined by all other opposition members from AIUDF, CPI (M) and Independent, moving to the well of the House.

They raised slogans in favour of Rahul Gandhi and displayed placards. The BJP members too rushed to the well and raised slogans denouncing Gandhi.

This led to the house being adjourned for 15 minutes. Again, when the house reassembled and Assam CM started to reply, the Congress MLAs and Independent member Akhil Gogoi again moved to the well showing placards.

The Speaker suspended Akhil Gogoi, Congress MLAs Kamalakhyda Dey Purkayastha and Jakir Hussain Sikdar from House for the entire day.

The opposition alleged that the Chief Minister has breached the privilege of the house and officially written to the Principal Secretary of the Assam Legislative Assembly.

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