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Bihar assembly adjourned following ruckus of opposition on reservation issue

Bihar assembly adjourned following ruckus of opposition on reservation issue

Patna, Mar 25 (UNI) Bihar Assembly was adjourned till lunch after question hour following a ruckus created by the opposition led by RJD members on the issue of reservation on Tuesday.
Soon after the question hour was over and Speaker Nand Kishor Yadav took up the Zero hour proceedings, the RJD members made noise about the issue.
RJD MLA Akhtarul Islam Shaheen reading his adjournment motion notice with the permission of the Speaker, said that the reservation was increased up to 75 percent by the then Grand Alliance government following a caste survey report. He said that the centre deliberately ended it by not including it in the 9th schedule of the Indian Constitution.

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