{"id":213264,"date":"2023-03-21T00:58:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=213264"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:28:33","slug":"opposition-vpp-mlas-stage-walkout-as-guv-addresses-mlaya-assembly-in-hindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/21\/opposition-vpp-mlas-stage-walkout-as-guv-addresses-mlaya-assembly-in-hindi\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition VPP MLAs stage walkout as guv addresses M&#8217;laya assembly in Hindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHILLONG, 20 Mar:<\/strong> Opposition Voice of the People Party (VPP) MLAs in Meghalaya on Monday staged a walkout in protest against Governor Phagu Chauhan addressing the House in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">VPP president Ardent Basaiawmoit and three other party MLAs staged the walkout despite Speaker Thomas A Sangma and Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma intervening and explaining that the translated speech has been distributed since the governor has &#8216;limitations&#8217; reading in English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Sending Hindi speaking governors to us, we do not understand what they are talking so we will stage a walkout,&#8221; Ardent told the assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to be part of this proceeding and those who do not feel insulted may sit in the House. We do not want to be part of this,&#8221; he said while walking out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The opposition MLAs maintained that English is the official language of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chief minister, who had intervened earlier, said, &#8220;The written speech has been circulated in the House as per rule. An individual with certain limitations and he cannot read English, therefore a written speech has been circulated. It is sad to see such disrespect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speaker had allowed the governor to address in Hindi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I request all the members to kindly bear with the House and show decorum of the House and not to shout while the governor is reading the address,&#8221; he said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLONG, 20 Mar: Opposition Voice of the People Party (VPP) MLAs in Meghalaya on Monday staged a walkout in protest against Governor Phagu Chauhan addressing the House in Hindi. VPP president Ardent Basaiawmoit and three other party MLAs staged the walkout despite Speaker Thomas A Sangma and Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma intervening and explaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}