The be­hav­iour wit­nessed in the Par­lia­ment on Fri­day night is be­ing sharply crit­i­cised by the for­mer speak­er of the House, Nizam Mo­hammed.

Mo­hammed, in a com­ment giv­en via tele­phone to Guardian Me­dia, said, “We are op­pressed and be­sieged by crime in the coun­try. Sad­ly, be­hav­iour in par­lia­ment is aid­ing, abet­ting, and fu­el­ing an­ti-so­cial be­hav­iour. Whether mem­bers of par­lia­ment re­alise this, re­gret­tably, such con­duct is al­ready spilling over to the Sen­ate as the chaos in­ten­si­fies, and this is not a good de­vel­op­ment. “

He con­tin­ued, “There is to­tal dis­re­gard for the stand­ing or­ders, when it comes to or­der and con­duct of pro­ceed­ings re­sult­ing in this break­down that we are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing, there is an en­tire chap­ter on the rules of or­der, which places the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty square­ly in the hands of the speak­er.”