LUCKNOW, Feb. 14 -- The Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly was adjourned briefly on Friday, the fifth day of the budget session, as speaker Satish Mahana was displeased over the House witnessing an uproar on the issue of reservation in recruitment.

"Are you supposed to run the House? Do you all want to run the House?" Mahana asked and then took off his headphones, tossing them aside. Pointing at the ruling party members whom he had asked to sit down, the speaker said, "I will get up for 10 minutes." This happened around 11.35am when Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Ragini Sonkar questioned the government about reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in state-level recruitments.

Responding to the question, p...