India, July 19 -- Assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar on Friday initiated breach of privilege action against two persons arrested in connection with the scuffle between supporters of NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad and BJP MLA Gopichand Padalkar in the lobby of the Vidhan Bhawan on Thursday. The speaker also announced that an ethics committee would be constituted to maintain the prestige of the state legislature.

"I have decided to constitute a committee along the lines of the committee existing in the Parliament," Narwekar told the assembly. The committee would have a wide range of powers including suspension and termination of legislators and it would be constituted within a week following consultations with the chairman of the legislative cou...