KARNATAKA ASSEMBLY WITNESSES UPROARIOUS SCENE DUE TO PROTESTS BY BJP AGAINST RULING CONGRESS' FIVE GUARANTEES

Karnataka Assembly on Tuesday witnessed uproarious scene due to protests by the BJP against the ruling Congress leading to four adjournments by Speaker U T Khader.

- JAYAPRAKASH RAMAIAH

As planned, the opposition BJP staged protests inside and outside the assembly alleging injustice and cheating by the ruling Congress in the name of five guarantees.

Despite commotion, Speaker Khader conducted the Question Hour and the Call Attention Motion.

Soon after the call attention motion, the Speaker adjourned the House till Wednesday morning.

Khader also announced the extension of the assembly session till July 21 instead of July 14 as decided earlier.

While former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai led the agitation inside the assembly, former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel, BJP MP D V Sadananda Gowda joined hundreds of BJP workers at the Freedom Park here to protest against the government.

Yediyurappa charged the Congress with 'misleading' people through their five guarantees.

"Our agitation is against the failure of fulfilling the five guarantees. We are also opposing the government's stand to withdraw the anticonversion and anti-cow slaughter laws, which our government had introduced in the past," he said.

Later talking to reporters, Yediyurappa, a central BJP Parliamentary Board member, backed JD(S) leader and former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's allegation of "transfer business", referring to alleged corruption, going on in the state.