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Guwahati, Mar 22 (PTI) A noisy scene was witnessed in the Assam assembly on Tuesday as the ruling and the opposition members got engaged in a verbal duel over the BJP’s poll promise of providing one lakh government jobs.<\/p>\n
Replying to a query by AIUDF legislator Ashraful Hussain during the Question Hour, Finance Minister Ajanta Neog said the government will hire one lakh youths as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
“I talked about it in my budget speech. The government is very serious about providing one lakh jobs. Department-wise work is going on very fast to recruit people. At present, the process is on to fill 84,244 posts,” she said.<\/p>\n
Neog also said the government is proceeding carefully to avoid any anomaly in the recruitment process and has formed two commissions to carry out the hiring exercise.<\/p>\n
“This is a big thing. Have you ever heard of any government giving one lakh jobs?” she asked members of the House.<\/p>\n
On this, Independent MLA Akhil Gogoi, who is president of the Raijor Dal, said the BJP had promised to provide 23 lakh jobs during the elections.<\/p>\n
Gogoi also used a word to comment on the truthfulness of the prime minister, the chief minister and the BJP government, leading to a sharp reaction from the ruling party members.<\/p>\n
BJP MLA Siddhartha Bhattacharya said, “The prime minister is not only ours. He is the PM of the country. Also, there is a tradition that if a person is not present, no personal attack is done.”<\/p>\n
Speaker Biswajit Daimary expunged the controversial word uttered by Gogoi.<\/p>\n
BJP member Diganta Kalita then asked Gogoi to sit down, pointing a finger towards him.<\/p>\n
Gogoi reacted immediately swinging his fists in the air and said, “I will not sit down. I am an Assamese youth.”<\/p>\n
This led to chaos with the ruling members shouting at the opposition legislator.<\/p>\n
Some of the Congress members also stood up and raised voices to protest against how the ruling party legislators behaved with Gogoi.<\/p>\n
The speaker said it is the responsibility of everyone to have the House in order.<\/p>\n
“If the members are not concerned about the smooth proceedings o in the Question Hour, what will I do? I am alone,” he said.<\/p>\n
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