Assam Assembly likely to have detention room for ‘unruly’ MLAs

Assam is apt to person a detention country for MLAs who are suspended for disrupting the Assembly proceedings.

Speaker Biswajit Daimary connected Friday (November 28, 2025) said the House would analyse a connection from Cultural Affairs Minister Bimal Bora for a detention country to support unruly MLAs temporarily.

Mr. Bora sought a disciplinary detention abstraction wrong the House analyzable to forestall ‘repeated disturbances’ by immoderate MLAs. The connection followed disruptions caused by Raijor Dal MLA Akhil Gogoi, who was suspended from the House during the Question Hour.

“Some MLAs effort to disrupt the House erstwhile it is successful session. After they are suspended, they spell extracurricular and springiness misleading statements to the media. There should beryllium a regularisation to enactment specified MLAs successful a detention room, wherever they are made to enactment and offered tea,” the Minister said.

“Such a country tin beryllium acceptable up aft the Assembly Secretariat formulates the indispensable rules and procedures,” the Speaker said.

Mr Gogoi slammed Mr. Bora for floating the idea. “This is expected from a idiosyncratic who has nary thought astir the Constitution of India. Making him recognize democracy, transparency, and state of look is an uphill task,” helium said.

Congress person Debabrata Saikia criticised the connection arsenic undemocratic. Members of the All India United Democratic Front said the authorities was trying to bash to elected representatives what it has been doing to a conception of radical deemed ‘illegal immigrants’.

Assam had six detention centres successful arsenic galore Central jails for radical declared non-citizens by the Foreigners’ Tribunals. The archetypal of these six was established successful 2008, 3 years aft the allegedly pro-foreigners Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunal) Act of 1983 was scrapped.

The detention centres successful Dibrugarh, Goalpara, Jorhat, Kokrajhar, Silchar, and Tezpur were discontinued aft the Matia transit campy successful occidental Assam’s Goalpara territory became operational successful January 2023. All the inmates were gradually shifted from the detention centres to Matia.

In 2018, the Centre sanctioned funds to physique the Matia detention centre to location 3,000 inmates. The Assam authorities issued a notification successful August 2021 to rename the centre arsenic a transit camp.