BJP MLAs walk out of J&K Assembly, demand regularisation of daily wagers

Amid unruly scenes and sloganeering, BJP legislators on Tuesday walked out of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly demanding regularization of daily wagers in the Union territory.

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They also protested against Monday's lathicharge on the demonstrating daily wagers of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department.

The leader of opposition and BJP leader Sunil Sharma raised the issue of regularization of daily wagers and demanded a response from the government.

Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather asked the members to maintain order as the government has already constituted a committee headed by the chief secretary to examine the issue of regularization of daily wagers and submit the report within six months.

Pointing towards senior BJP legislator Sham Lal Sharma, the treasury benches questioned him why he did not regularize the daily wagers when he himself was the PHE minister.