BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh assembly was adjourned on the first day of the interim budget session after the house unanimously passed a censure motion against the February 14 terror attack on CRPF jawans in Pulwama. Leader of opposition Gopal Bhargava proposed that the censure motion be passed in the house and it was seconded by chief minister Kamal Nath.Both the ruling Congress with allies and the opposition BJP unanimously passed the censure motion before observing two minutes silence to pay homage to the martyred jawans.The house also paid tribute to souls of deceased leaders and former MLAs including former defence minister George Fernandez , former Union minister Bhanuprakash Singh , former MP Jitendra Singh Bundela, former GAD minister of the Digvijaya Singh government Ghanshyam Patidar and former MLAs Lokendra Singh Tomar, Mohan Singh Bundela and Krishna Vallabh Gupta.Chief minister Kamal Nath said, “Many jawans have been martyred in a terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir including Ashwini Kumar of the state. Our jawans leave their homes and families to protect the country.” The chief minister said that in their martyrdom, the jawans brought the country and all political parties together. “I condemn the attack in very strong words,” Nath said addressing the House.Leader of opposition Gopal Bhargava said, “More than 42 jawans have been martyred in the Pulwama incident. The entire nation is shocked and devastated. All political parties have condemned the attack and even today there has been an incident where a soldier has been martyred. Our leaders have said that the government and armed forces will give an appropriate reply to the attack. We will win this war, it is only a matter of time. But as a legislative organisation, we can unanimously pass a censure motion against terrorism and Pakistan and forward it to the President, Prime Minister and the armed forces.”Former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, “We will not break the back of terrorists, we will uproot them from the soil.” Chouhan said that Pakistan will be taught a lesson so tough that it will henceforth, never look at India with evil intentions. Chouhan said he bows before the soil where CRPF jawan from Jabalpur Ashwini Kumar Kaochi was born.Chief minister Kamal Nath supported Gopal Bhargava’s recommendation to pass a censure motion. The chief minister said that a censure motion passed from the state assembly will be a “message that will go from 7.5 crore citizens of Madhya Pradesh to the CRPF and the armed forces that we stand by them.”Speaker NP Prajapati presented the censure motion before the house taking into account the proposal made by both chief minister Nath, LOP Bhargava and “feelings of the people of the state”. The House unanimously passed the censure motion and then observed a two minutes silence to pay homage to the martyred jawans and the deceased leaders. Speaker Prajapati adjourned the House till Wednesday.

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