Dramatic Scenes In Delhi Assembly As Rebel AAP MLA Gets Marshalled Out

Responding to allegations, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain told the House that he will get the charge probed.

FILE PIC/Alka Lamba (Twitter account)

New Delhi: Disgruntled AAP MLA Alka Lamba on Friday had to be marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly on Friday by Speaker Ram Niwas Goel for disobeying and defying his directions. On the second day of the Monsoon session, the Chandni Chowk legislator in a special mention alleged that two families recently had to purchase medicines from private shops despite the Delhi government's claim that drugs were provided free of cost at its hospitals. Lamba claimed that the matter was related to GB Pant Hospital under the Delhi government. Responding to allegations, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain told the House that he will get the charge probed. Lamba continued to raise the issue despite the Speaker asking her to sit down. When she did not relent, Goel ordered her to be marshalled out of the House . Earlier this month, the rebel MLA said she has made up her mind to resign from the primary membership of the party and will contest the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls as an independent candidate. To her decision to quit the party, AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said in a tweet, "She has announced this a dozen of times in the past. It takes 1 min to send a written resignation letter to party leadership. We will accept it on Twitter too." (With reports from news agency PTI)