Goa Opposition members disrupt House over disallowed land conversion question
Opposition leader Yuri Alemão of Congress, who was among the legislators later marshalled out, said the Speaker disallowed three questions
On the opening day of Goa’s monsoon session, opposition legislators disrupted proceedings by storming the well of the House to voice their disagreement over Speaker Ganesh Gaonkar’s decision to disallow three questions related to land conversion. Congress leader Yuri Alemão, along with five other opposition members, submitted questions seeking information on the arbitrary classification of lands as non-developable areas and the criteria involved.
The Speaker’s decision to dismiss the questions based on Rules 37(3), 37(8), 37(11), and 37(20) was contested by Alemão, who argued that nothing in the questions violated these rules. Gaonkar, however, stated that the issue of land conversion was currently under litigation at the Bombay High Court and thus, the questions were deemed sub-judice.
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