Overview
- Congress legislators, dressed in black and carrying placards, were stopped at the assembly entrance after a protest over alleged paper leaks and Ram-temple donation irregularities turned physical.
- Opposition leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda and other Congress MLAs accused security personnel of pushing and humiliating them while the state and Speaker denied the allegations.
- Two video clips showing different moments of the confrontation circulated during the sitting but reporters and officials said the footage does not clearly show who started the contact.
- Speaker Harvinder Kalyan twice adjourned proceedings and then named and suspended eight Congress MLAs for the day: Induraj Narwal, Vikas Saharan, Devender Hans, Shakuntla Khatak, Aditya Surjewala, Gokul Setia, Jassi Petwar and Balram Dangi.
- The standoff shut down business for more than two hours and risks longer disruption to the three-day monsoon session while the dispute deepens mistrust between the opposition and the BJP-led state government.