By Our Reporter
SHILLONG, Sep 22: The final day of the autumn session witnessed some high drama and noisy scenes after Assembly Speaker Thomas A Sangma prevented VPP’s North Shillong MLA, Adelbert Nongrum from raising a call attention notice.
Health Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh laid a statement in the House relating to the call attention notice which irked Nongrum who was seeking a discussion on the matter.
As soon as Ampareen stood up to read the statement, Nongrum interfered and questioned how a minister could lay the reply, forcing Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma to term it a mockery of the system and rules on call attention motions.
Deputy Chief Minister Prestone Tynsong also joined in and said the MLA should read the rules line by line and point by point and stop wasting time.
The Speaker then made a ruling that only one call attention motion can be taken up in a single day as per the convention.
Nongrum stood up again and said that he has not raised the matter and questioned the minister’s statement again.
This enraged the Speaker who said that a member has to sit down when the Chair is on its feet.
Tynsong also stood up and said that the MLA has to sit down since the House is “not a place for drama”.