Uproar over speaker’s participation in PDP-BJP meeting; Kavinder says won’t go again

Jammu : The budget session of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on Tuesday started with noisy scenes after the Opposition questioned presence of the speaker in PDP-BJP meeting held few days ago. Senior NC leader and Khanyar MLA Ali Muhammad Sagar said no speaker has attended any political party meeting. He said attending such meeting is unprecedented as no speaker in past has done it. “You have become government’s speaker,” Sagar said. He was joined by MLA eidgah Mubarak Gul who said that he never attended any political party meeting when he was appointed as speaker of the Lower House.
Later, the speaker said if his presence in the political party meeting was wrong he wouldn’t repeat it in future. “Ok, if I have committed a mistake by attending political party meeting I won’t go in future,” he said.