The Karnataka Assembly suspended 18 BJP MLAs for six months following protests over alleged honey trap cases and the minority quota bill. BJP demands CBI probe into honey trap allegations involving ministers. The party accuses the Siddaramaiah government of covering up the scandal and insulting democracy. Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar criticises BJP's behaviour. The opposition plans protests against the minority quota bill in Parliament and on streets.
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00:00The political war has now started to escalate.
00:0218 BJP MLAs have been suspended for the next 6 months from the Assembly for creating big
00:08ruckus on the floor of the House and heckling the Speaker.
00:11The BJP MLAs were protesting for allegedly increasing the honey trap cases against
00:16politicians in Karnataka and they are now demanding a CBI probe in this matter.
00:20The Saffron party has caught all guns blazing against the Siddharamaiah government
00:25and accusing them of covering up the honey trap scandal.
00:28They even pointed out that it is the Chief Minister's responsibility to make sure that
00:32proper investigation is done in the matter.
00:34The BJP also attacked Siddharamaiah government over the minority quota bill
00:38and accused them of insulting democracy.
00:40The Saffron party has promised that they will make sure that they continue to oppose the bill
00:45and they are all set to stage a mega protest,
00:48not just in the Parliament but also make sure that they are out on the streets.
00:52Deputy Chief Minister Nikesh F. Kumar has said that the Chief Minister in fact is now
00:57waiting for an official complaint to be filed to start the investigations.
01:01Deputy CM said BJP is an uncultured party and claimed that they do not know how to behave.
01:27Nothing has been done. He is playing both ways and when this was asked and put an end to this
01:32to bring purity in public life, our MLAs have been thrown out.
01:37This is totally undemocratic and they have to pay for this.
01:57The government should hand this over to the CBI or they should conduct an inquiry in the High Court.
02:07What is going on in Karnataka is beyond my understanding.
02:11I condemn this and to suspend all the MLAs for 4% of the Muslim reservation.
02:20Sir, they were thrown out of the proceedings.
02:23We wanted to show them that we are so talented for Muslims.
02:28Congress is against the constitution.
02:32Today, two incidents have taken place in the Karnataka Assembly.
02:37One is that 18 of our BJP MLAs have the right to protest under the constitution.
02:45We can protest inside the Parliament and outside.
02:51For the first time in the country, we are hearing that 18 MLAs have been thrown out for 6 months.
03:01The Congress government in Karnataka is trying to create this friction between religions
03:07by providing the religious reservation. I am not against any religion.
03:11But on what provision? We all work on certain principles.
03:17This is not a dictatorship. This is a democracy.
03:21In democracy, we have to be bound by what constitution is there for us.
03:29I can't have my own law.
03:31So this is exactly what Congress is trying to do, the appeasement politics.
03:37It's a blot on democracy.
03:39They went up to the podium of the Speaker and insulted the Speaker.
03:45They threw papers. This is totally anti-democratic.
03:51They acted like hooligans in the Assembly.
03:55It's totally condemnable. There's a reason why the House has suspended them.
04:01Misbehaving, unruly behavior in the Assembly in front of the Chief Minister.
04:09Apart from that, the supreme person in the Assembly is the Speaker.
04:17So insulting the Speaker and insulting the Chief Minister
04:25is not appreciated by any democratic principled person.
04:31That is condemnable.
04:33And at the same time, the ending of the Assembly session is also a black mark in the history of the Karnataka legislature.