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"Based on the importance of the adjournment notice, we demanded that the house take up the farmers' issue by suspending question hour. "Question hour is the most crucial moment where MLAs get chance to put forth questions on various issues pertaining to constituencies while the ministers respond at the moment. Disrupting the question hour is not a good sign," Dash said.Defending the speaker's decision, the BJD legislator said opposition members could raise the farmers issue during the adjournment debate, which was also accepted by the speaker. "The state government tried to snatch the democratic rights of farmers by suppressing their agitation with the use of security forces. Amid pandemonium, the house was adjourned for an hour till 12:14 pm, and later for the day.Briefing reporters outside, leader of opposition Narasingha Mishra justified his party's demand..