Ranchi: The monsoon session of Assembly, which ended on Saturday, will go down in Jharkhand's history for being the one in which none of the 378 questions supposed to be taken up could be asked and some of the worst expletives were traded by elected lawmakers.

If chief minister Raghubar Das implied Leader of the Opposition Hemant Soren was a robber, the latter alluded to Das as Mahmud of Ghazni.

Seven new bills were passed on Saturday, taking the total to 21 in this session that started on July 16, but effectively with five working days. But, even as Das and Hemant exchanged scathing attacks, including on the bills, many BJP MLAs raised doubts about these institutions of higher education.

The bills passed by voice vote amid boycott by JMM and a majority of other Opposition members included those for state finance, Netaji Subhas University, Ramchandra Chandravanshi University, Radha Govind University, Ram Krishna Dharmarth Foundation University, and existing Jharkhand Rai University (Amendment), Jharkhand Education Tribunal (Amendment).

But, Hemant said that the government was clearing decks for new universities on one hand and on the other hand state-run schools were being closed. The poor results of matriculation exams cast doubts on the fate of these universities, he said. " Pravasi Mukhyamantri humare Jharkhand ko barbad karne par tule hain, jis tarah Ghazni ne humare desh ke mandiron ko loota (migrant chief minister is out to ruin our Jharkhand, the way Mahmud of Gazni plundered our country's temple)," he said.

In retaliation, Das thundered, "The one (Hemant) who robbed the state is calling me a migrant and thief. Who flouted CNT - SPT to purchase lands? I can prove this any moment."

BJP MLA from Garhwa Satyendra Nath Tiwari alleged the existing Rai University was duping poor students of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and OBCs, in particular, and swindling their scholarship sums provided by the state's welfare department. Tiwari was backed by several other colleagues, who alleged Rai University extorted money directly from students. To this, Das said alleged acts of graft by private universities would be probed.

And, BJP chief whip Radha Krishna said in a lighter vein that his name should be appended to the proposed Ramchandra Chandravanshi University as he, just like Chandravanshi, was from Palamau.

Nominated Anglo-Indian Assembly member J.P. Galstaun pointed out that 2 acres were needed for a school, five acres for a college and 25 acres for a university, and wondered if any of the proposed universities had enough land.

Speaker Dinesh Oraon said 378 questions were slated to be discussed in the House, but not a single among them could be taken. There was no requisition for zero hour questions and call attention notice too remained uncared. However, 21 bills and the first supplementary budget for the current fiscal were passed by the House, he said.