What happens when our politicians do not agree? They debate for starters, then argue, then if no solution is found by either of the parties, they pull each other's hair out. Well, that's the sane part of it. For the insane, check out this gallery.
Pandemonium prevailed in the Orissa Assembly on December 14, 2010 as the Congress MLAs went on shouting anti-Government slogans and demanded Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's resignation on the Vedanta issue. They even tried to climb onto the Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat's podium to force an adjournment over the High Court verdict on Vedanta University land acquisition deal. Rajendra Kumar Chhatria, the Congress MLA from Kuchinda, managed to climb onto the podium after he along with two party members scuffled with the security staff in the assembly.
1) Deputies and paramedics carry an injured member of parliament after a scuffle in parliament in Kiev December 16, 2010. Opposition deputies brought proceedings to a halt inside the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday, when they staged an action to support former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who said on Wednesday she had been targeted in a criminal probe. REUTERS
2) Deputies scuffle during a session in the chamber of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev December 16, 2010. Opposition deputies brought proceedings to a halt inside the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday, when they staged an action to support former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who said on Wednesday she had been targeted in a criminal probe. REUTERS
3) The 'new low' keeps going lower, but the point is that this is how democracy 'works' - not by discussing issues or raising points, but by tearing clothes, hurtling abuses and flower pots (not necessarily in this order), punching opposition members and using the Assembly as a 'living' in centre.
4) On July 12, MLAs belonging to the Congress and the JD(S) made a tamasha of the Assembly by spending three nights in the House having biriyani, singing songs and sleeping on the floor. Their demand? Handing over the illegal mining scandal involving the Reddy brothers to the CBI. Congress and JD(S) MLAs, who do not share the same political ideology, were found sleeping together. Politics, after all, is a story of strange bedfellow.
5) On July 21, an MLA in Bihar threw a footwear at Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary when the latter suspended the 67 unruly members, mostly from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Left parties.
6) Members of the ruling Grand National Party (L) scuffle with members of the main opposition Democratic Party who were blocking entry into the main conference hall of parliament, in Seoul December 8, 2010. Calling government members of parliament "lapdogs", opposition members from the Democratic Party blockaded parliament offices and the main hall for a second day and parliamentary guards were brought in to restore order. REUTERS
7) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Kuo Wen-chen falls off the podium while scuffling with ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei July 8, 2010. Legislators kicked and punched each other, threw rubbish bins and splashed water during the fight in the Legislative Yuan in Taipei earlier today, with two members being sent to hospital. REUTERS
8) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators scuffle with ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators (top) at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei July 8, 2010. Taiwan legislators threw objects, splashed water and kicked one another on Thursday, sending two to the hospital in a brawl over how fast to ratify a trade pact with China that is shaping up as a pivotal election issue. REUTERS
9) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators scuffle with ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators (top) at the Legislative Yuan In Taipei July 8, 2010. The previous rumbles have centred on one law to open up university enrolment to students from the Chinese mainland, and legislation that would see local officials being appointed, rather than elected. REUTERS
10) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators cover the mouth of Nationalist (KMT) legislator Chao Li-yun during a parliament session inside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei April 21, 2010. The session was held on Wednesday as part of a bill ammendment on whether students from mainland China will be allowed to attend Taiwan universities. REUTERS
11) Legislators from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Nationalist (KMT) Party (top) scuffle during a session at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei January 18, 2010. REUTERS
12) A lawmaker (C) of the main opposition Democratic Party tries to block a vice speaker of the National Assembly from passing new bills as security guards and the ruling Grand National Party's lawmakers block him at the National Assembly main chamber in Seoul July 22, 2009. REUTERS
13) Taiwan legislators treat a colleague who was injured following a fight in parliament in Taipei May 8, 2007. The brawl in Taiwan's sharply divided parliament is by no means the island's first, with legislators throwing stones and lunchboxes in previous sessions after failing to see eye to eye on certain issues. REUTERS
14) South Korean lawmakers from Uri Party (top R, 2nd-L), who back President Roh Moo-hyun, scuffle with lawmakers from opposition the Grand National Party as the latter attempt to occupy the seat of the speaker at parliament in Seoul March 12, 2004. Opposition parliamentarians sought unsuccessfully to storm the occupied speaker's podium early Friday to try to ensure they could hold an unprecedented vote on impeaching South Korean President Roh, local media said. REUTERS
15) Parliament security guards fall during a scuffle with members of the main opposition Democratic Party at the National Assembly in Seoul January 3, 2009. Opposition Democratic Party lawmakers have been occupying the Chairman's seat in the plenary session hall since December 26, 2008 to block the ruling, conservative Grand National Party lawmakers who want to pass disputed bills which include a U.S. trade deal as well as easing rules on bank ownership, on tapping mobile phones and on broadcasting company ownership by conglomerates and conservative print media firms. REUTERS
16) Communist deputies scuffle with members of parliament loyal to President Viktor Yushchenko before the president's annual "state of the nation" address to the chamber in Kiev February 9, 2006. Yushchenko proposed breaking a legal logjam with parliament by creating a commission to draft a new version of the constitution to be submitted to a referendum. REUTERS
17) Bolivian opposition congressman Fernando Rodriguez battles with an unidentified indigenous deputy of President Evo Morales' party during a congress session in La Paz, April 9, 2009. Morales went on a hunger strike on Thursday to demand Bolivia's Congress pass an electoral law that could make it easier for him to win control of the legislature in December's general election. REUTERS
Source:MSN
Pandemonium prevailed in the Orissa Assembly on December 14, 2010 as the Congress MLAs went on shouting anti-Government slogans and demanded Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's resignation on the Vedanta issue. They even tried to climb onto the Speaker Pradip Kumar Amat's podium to force an adjournment over the High Court verdict on Vedanta University land acquisition deal. Rajendra Kumar Chhatria, the Congress MLA from Kuchinda, managed to climb onto the podium after he along with two party members scuffled with the security staff in the assembly.
1) Deputies and paramedics carry an injured member of parliament after a scuffle in parliament in Kiev December 16, 2010. Opposition deputies brought proceedings to a halt inside the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday, when they staged an action to support former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who said on Wednesday she had been targeted in a criminal probe. REUTERS
2) Deputies scuffle during a session in the chamber of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev December 16, 2010. Opposition deputies brought proceedings to a halt inside the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday, when they staged an action to support former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko who said on Wednesday she had been targeted in a criminal probe. REUTERS
3) The 'new low' keeps going lower, but the point is that this is how democracy 'works' - not by discussing issues or raising points, but by tearing clothes, hurtling abuses and flower pots (not necessarily in this order), punching opposition members and using the Assembly as a 'living' in centre.
4) On July 12, MLAs belonging to the Congress and the JD(S) made a tamasha of the Assembly by spending three nights in the House having biriyani, singing songs and sleeping on the floor. Their demand? Handing over the illegal mining scandal involving the Reddy brothers to the CBI. Congress and JD(S) MLAs, who do not share the same political ideology, were found sleeping together. Politics, after all, is a story of strange bedfellow.
5) On July 21, an MLA in Bihar threw a footwear at Speaker Uday Narain Choudhary when the latter suspended the 67 unruly members, mostly from the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) and the Left parties.
6) Members of the ruling Grand National Party (L) scuffle with members of the main opposition Democratic Party who were blocking entry into the main conference hall of parliament, in Seoul December 8, 2010. Calling government members of parliament "lapdogs", opposition members from the Democratic Party blockaded parliament offices and the main hall for a second day and parliamentary guards were brought in to restore order. REUTERS
7) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Kuo Wen-chen falls off the podium while scuffling with ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei July 8, 2010. Legislators kicked and punched each other, threw rubbish bins and splashed water during the fight in the Legislative Yuan in Taipei earlier today, with two members being sent to hospital. REUTERS
8) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators scuffle with ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators (top) at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei July 8, 2010. Taiwan legislators threw objects, splashed water and kicked one another on Thursday, sending two to the hospital in a brawl over how fast to ratify a trade pact with China that is shaping up as a pivotal election issue. REUTERS
9) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators scuffle with ruling Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators (top) at the Legislative Yuan In Taipei July 8, 2010. The previous rumbles have centred on one law to open up university enrolment to students from the Chinese mainland, and legislation that would see local officials being appointed, rather than elected. REUTERS
10) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators cover the mouth of Nationalist (KMT) legislator Chao Li-yun during a parliament session inside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei April 21, 2010. The session was held on Wednesday as part of a bill ammendment on whether students from mainland China will be allowed to attend Taiwan universities. REUTERS
11) Legislators from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Nationalist (KMT) Party (top) scuffle during a session at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei January 18, 2010. REUTERS
12) A lawmaker (C) of the main opposition Democratic Party tries to block a vice speaker of the National Assembly from passing new bills as security guards and the ruling Grand National Party's lawmakers block him at the National Assembly main chamber in Seoul July 22, 2009. REUTERS
13) Taiwan legislators treat a colleague who was injured following a fight in parliament in Taipei May 8, 2007. The brawl in Taiwan's sharply divided parliament is by no means the island's first, with legislators throwing stones and lunchboxes in previous sessions after failing to see eye to eye on certain issues. REUTERS
14) South Korean lawmakers from Uri Party (top R, 2nd-L), who back President Roh Moo-hyun, scuffle with lawmakers from opposition the Grand National Party as the latter attempt to occupy the seat of the speaker at parliament in Seoul March 12, 2004. Opposition parliamentarians sought unsuccessfully to storm the occupied speaker's podium early Friday to try to ensure they could hold an unprecedented vote on impeaching South Korean President Roh, local media said. REUTERS
15) Parliament security guards fall during a scuffle with members of the main opposition Democratic Party at the National Assembly in Seoul January 3, 2009. Opposition Democratic Party lawmakers have been occupying the Chairman's seat in the plenary session hall since December 26, 2008 to block the ruling, conservative Grand National Party lawmakers who want to pass disputed bills which include a U.S. trade deal as well as easing rules on bank ownership, on tapping mobile phones and on broadcasting company ownership by conglomerates and conservative print media firms. REUTERS
16) Communist deputies scuffle with members of parliament loyal to President Viktor Yushchenko before the president's annual "state of the nation" address to the chamber in Kiev February 9, 2006. Yushchenko proposed breaking a legal logjam with parliament by creating a commission to draft a new version of the constitution to be submitted to a referendum. REUTERS
17) Bolivian opposition congressman Fernando Rodriguez battles with an unidentified indigenous deputy of President Evo Morales' party during a congress session in La Paz, April 9, 2009. Morales went on a hunger strike on Thursday to demand Bolivia's Congress pass an electoral law that could make it easier for him to win control of the legislature in December's general election. REUTERS
Source:MSN
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