Members of AIUDF, AGP, BPF and BJP staged a protest against the Speaker and the chief minister for not allowing a discussion on the recent violence on the Assam-Nagaland border and the killing of a teenage girl, Priya Basumatary, by NDFB (Songbijit) group a few weeks ago. The opposition had raised the twin issues on August 25 and had wanted a discussion that day.
"The chief minister had said the state government was ready for discussion and the Speaker, too, had said that he would consider the Opposition demand for the discussion. We were expecting a discussion today but that did not happen," AGP leader Phani Bhushan Choudhury said outside the house.
Besides passing the annual budget for the current fiscal, the House also passed bills relating to salary and allowance hike for the ministers, speaker, deputy speaker and other members of the House.
The session started on August 4 and Congress dissidents, led by former health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, played the role of a 'constructive opposition' as promised by him the day he quit the ministry in protest against chief minister Tarun Gogoi's leadership.
Amid fears that Congress dissidents might create trouble when Gogoi presented the budget on August 11, the chief whip of Congress legislature party had issued a three-line whip to all members of Congress to be present in the house and support the budget on the voting day.
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