Chandigarh, May 28 -- Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Haryana assembly, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, told Vidhan Sabha Speaker Harvinder Kalyan that the April 27 decision of the Congress MLAs to hold a mock assembly session outside the House chamber must be viewed as a democratic expression of their stand.

The Congress MLAs had stayed away from the one-day special Haryana assembly session on April 27, primarily convened by the BJP government with an intent to politically target the Opposition on the women's reservation issue.

The Congress lawmakers, led by Hooda, boycotted the special session and instead held a parallel session outside the House chamber, prompting the Speaker to seek a clarification from Hooda. The Speaker in a April 28 com...