UP Assembly: SP, BSP MLAs stage protest, throw paper balls at Governor

Lucknow May 16: Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly began here on Monday on a stormy note.

While going to matter, it was The maiden session of the newly elected UP Legislative Assembly began as the Opposition MLAs staged protest over deteriorating law and order situation in the state and disrupted Governor's joint address.

According to the information from the sources, opposition lawmakers from the Samajwadi Party and the BSP started shouting anti-government slogans and trooped into the Well of the House as Governor Ram Naik began his speech.



However, The customary address of Governor Ram Naik to the joint sitting of the two Houses of the state legislature was drowned in the uproar created by the opposition.

Slogan-shouting opposition members trooped into the Well of the House despite Speaker Hridaya Narain Dixit's appeal at an all-party meeting to ensure smooth proceedings.

Opposition members blew whistles and threw paper balls at the podium and the marshals tried to dodge them with files.