Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Assembly was today adjourned till July 26 after paying condolence to sitting BJP MLA Mathura Prasad Pal, who died due to prolonged illness. After the House paid condolence to Pal, a BJP MLA from Sikandra constituency in Kanpur Dehat, Speaker Hriday Narain Dixit adjourned the House. There would be no sitting of the House as decided by the business advisory committee, he said. Pal (72), who was suffering from cancer, was on his way to Delhi for treatment when he died near Mathura on July 22.
Pal had recently come to the UP Assembly on a wheel chair to cast his vote in the presidential poll. PTI
