The Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party staged a noisy walkout of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly during the Question Hour over two issues.
While the SP demanding a vigilance probe into the appointment of teachers in the homeopathy colleges since 2002 and staged the walkout after the government refused to oblige, the BSP members did the same to protest state government’s laxity in preventing sex-determination tests by the doctors in the state.
SP member Ujjawal Raman Singh raised the question of forged experience certificates submitted by the teachers in the homeopathy colleges and demanded that a vigilance probe be ordered. He said 51 teachers have given forged experience certificates, including the present Homeopathy director.
But Minister Dharam Singh Saini refused to accept the demand but assured to hold an impartial inquiry by a senior official. He said a probe was carried out by the previous SP government on these allegations and the report was tabled in the Legislative Council.
But the SP members continued to press for a vigilance probe but when it was not accepted, they walked out of the House raising anti-government slogans.
To another question of BSP member Umashanker Singh and others on the sex-determination clinics, state Women and Child Welfare Minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi said the government was strict and even a decoy operation unit has been formed to track these illegal clinics.
She said doctors in Hathras, Meerut and Amroha were sent to jail for doing sex-determination tests while committees have been formed in every village to make the people aware about these illegal methods.
Joshi, claimed that the situation has improved as the sex-ratio has gone up from 903 to 906 girls per thousand boys in the state.
But the BSP members were not satisfied with the government’s reply and staged a walkout.