AIADMK MLAs stage walkout

AIADMK MLAs today staged a walkout from the State Assembly today, protesting against the Speaker's denial to grant permission to their whip K A Sengottayan to reply to the charges against the previous AIADMK Government, levelled by Congress MLA Peter Alphonse.

Alphonse charged the Jayalalithaa Government with ill treating minorities under the pretext of banning religious conversions, resulting in an uproar in the Opposition benches.(more...)