Ruckus mars Sindh Assembly session

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly hall was the site of commotion and uproar once again on Tuesday as opposition lawmakers protested during an address by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah.

The assembly session was first marred by a lack of quorum in the morning, but when lawmakers arrived at the House, the noise made one's own voice incomprehensible.

The protest continued through the chief minister's address, with Qaim Ali Shah responding by calling the protestors ‘landlords’ who did not want to listen to what 'the poor man' has to say.

“I have been a member of national and provincial assembly for 40 years now. There are some rules of Parliament which should be respected. Do not teach us the rules. We have made these rules ourselves,” said the chief minister.

The chief minister claimed that the federal government had imported sub-standard wheat, and that his government had doubled the price of wheat this year benefit of the farmers.

But the ruckus in the House rendered the address by the Leader of the House incomprehensible.

Earlier, the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional’s Nusrat Sahar Abbasi got into an argument with Speaker Siraj Durrani as he reprimanded the legislator for causing a commotion in the House and disobeying his ruling.

The Speaker also complained that he had earlier spoken about the Assembly's security but lawmakers had turned it into a joke.