BJP's Vijendra Gupta returns as Assembly speaker ten years apart from where he was thrown out
PTC News Desk: BJP's veteran leader Vijendra Gupta has made a dramatic comeback as Speaker of the Assembly. Gupta who was marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly during the 10-year rule of the AAP has now returned which best describes as poetic justice.
Dramatic visuals have surfaced from within the Assembly showing Gupta being lifted, shouting and twisting, by half-a-dozen marshals, while the BJP leader holding on to the furniture and resisting his way out.
Now that tables have turned, Gupta has returned as Assembly speaker and AAP will chair from where he was once thrown out after BJP secured a victory in the national capital after 27 years. Gupta, who belongs to the Baniya community, won the Rohini Assembly seat for a third consecutive time, defeating AAP's Pradeep Mittal by over 37,000 votes.
Vijender Gupta's return is expected to bring more challenges for the struggling AAP, as he had vowed after his election victory last week to table 14 pending reports by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) concerning the previous AAP government in the House and make them public.
What Happened In 2015?
On November 30, 2015, there was chaos, as is often the case in state Assemblies and Parliament in India, when AAP and BJP MLAs clashed over alleged derogatory remarks.
Ram Niwas Goel, the Speaker at the time, instructed Vijender Gupta to leave the House until 4 pm. When he refused, marshals were summoned to remove him. Gupta resisted and tried to hold onto the bench, but the marshals managed to evict him.
Before being removed, Gupta accused the Speaker of bias in favor of the AAP, which was in power at the time, claiming that three BJP legislators had been abused and assaulted by AAP MLAs. "But no action has been taken against them," he stated.
- PTC NEWS
