Disruption of Assembly Session Goes on Unabated
Patna: July 17, 2007
 The opposition leaders in Bihar, whose constitutional roles have shrunk to shouting slogans and disrupting the Assembly sessions on a regular basis, on Tuesday, did exactly that blasting the NDA government for unleashing a reign of terror and failing to check crime in the state.
"This is a government that has lost control over everything. Criminals and bureaucrats are running the state and ordinary people are scrambling to save their lives," Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and the leader of the Opposition Rabri Devi said.
Demanding to control the atrocities unleashed by the bureaucrats, RJD, Congress, and other party leaders said corruption in every department had become the hallmark of the Nitish government and liberal liquor policy was turning the entire state into a safe haven for drunkards and alcoholics affecting lives of millions of people, particularly women and children.
 The Opposition also disrupted the session over reservation issues saying Nitish Kumar, the state Chief Minister, had breached the trust of all when he refused to enforce reservation provisions to native Biharis only and instead, opened doors for people from other states.
Rabri Devi, a veteran in caste-based politics like her husband and Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, accused the Speaker of the House Uday Narain Chowdhary of acting against the interests of dalits and backwards by continuing to provide defense for the Nitish government.
"We had thought by being a dalit himself, he would have some sympathy for his fellow dalits but he has proved himself to be anti-dalit and should not be allowed to occupy the seat of the Speaker of the House," Rabri Devi said.
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