5pm: Nizar tells a press conference that as far as Pakatan is concerned, the House did not sit today. He says that whatever BN did was "illegal and unconstitutional".
As for the regent's speech, the ousted MB describes it "as just a royal speech, nothing more than that. It is not opening the assembly."
4.30pm: PAS' Salahuddin Ayub says all the elected reps arrested earlier have been released.
4.05pm: Perak Regent Nazrin leaves the chamber. BN-appointed MB Zambry suggests for the House to be adjourned. Pakatan reps repeatedly shout ‘Dissolve the assembly’ again.
New speaker Ganesan adjourns the assembly to a date to be decided. Pakatan reps to call press conference.
4pm: PKR election strategy director and Batu parliamentarian Tian Chua is arrested outside the state secretariat building.
The police inform him that the area has been cordoned off. The opposition politician tells police that he is there to greet his Pakatan colleagues.
Although he is accompanied by PKR treasurer and Selayang MP William Leong and several other party leaders, the police only detain him. He is forcefully dragged to an unmarked police vehicle.
3.47pm: Raja Nazrin ends his royal speech. He did not touch on the ongoing political crisis in the state during his 30-minute speech.
He spoke on the stimulus packages and development of the state. A closing prayer session is underway.
3.36pm: Sivakumar's official car is seen returning to the state secretariat building with the same woman passenger.
3.16pm: Order is restored in the House and Raja Nazrin starts his royal address, which has been delayed for almost six hours. His speech touches on the stimulus packages unveiled by the prime minister.
3.15pm: ROUND 4 - BN SPEAKER FULLY IN CHARGE
Regent of Perak Raja Nazrin enters the House and talks to ousted MB Nizar and DAP's Ngeh Khoo Ham. Following this, Nizar tells all Pakatan reps to take their seat and they obey.
The police install a new chair for Ganesan as the old speaker's chair was damaged during the earlier scuffle. The plainclothes personnel have also left the House. Seah Leong Peng (DAP-Pasir Bedamar) complains his jacket was torn during the scuffle (right).
3.12pm: Sivakumar's official Toyota Camry bearing the registration plate 'AFD 999' is seen leaving the state secretariat building with a woman passenger but the speaker is not in the car.
3.10pm: Ganesan adjourns the House for a few minutes in order as the assembly waits for the Regent of Perak to deliver his royal address.
3.05pm: Ganesan starts chairing the meeting and calls for the customary prayers to be recited. He also calls for the removal of two Pakatan reps but no action is taken to do so.
Sivakumar's wife, who is in assembly, is enraged and demands to see her husband. The 'officials' then take her to see the Pakatan speaker but nobody else is allowed to meet him.
3pm: PAS Youth chief Salahuddin Ayub who was arrested this morning tells Malaysiakini via telephone that he is being held at the Sungai Senam police station in Ipoh.
He says some 40 others arrested this morning are also at the station. He adds that he gave a statement to the police but has not been informed when he will be released.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the police have released 13 people who were arrested this morning.
The exact number of those arrested could not be ascertained but DAP leader Lim Kit Siang said the number stood at 64.
2.55pm: The same group of 'officials' escort Ganesan to the speaker's chair and the speaker then started chairing the sitting.
2.41pm: Several uniformed police personnel grab hold of Sivakumar and forcibly remove him from the speaker's chair.
He was then dragged out of the House by a group of plainclothes personnel wearing tags which read 'official'. Sivakumar resists and shouts, "I am the legal speaker. Why am I being treated like this?" It cannot be ascertained if these were police personnel.
Pakatan reps try to shield him but more plainclothes personnel enter the House and manage to breakthrough the human barricade.
Several Pakatan reps are also dragged out and the ensuing melee sees several flower pots in the assembly are smashed.
2.35pm: Attempts by the sergeant-at-arms and state assembly staff to remove Sivakumar are being resisted by the speaker and Pakatan reps. Some other Pakatan assemblypersons are continuing with their attempts to eject BN speaker Ganesan from the house.
2.30pm: The situation is still chaotic in the house. The sergeant-at-arms is now trying to remove Sivakumar from the speaker's chair to allow Ganesan to assume the chair.
2.15pm: ROUND 3 - TUSSLE FOR SPEAKER'S SEAT
The assembly resumes. Pakatan reps are trying to physically stop Ganesan from entering the chamber.
There is a lot of pushing and shoving among the state reps. A few punches are being thrown about as well. A number of reps climb up the table. It is complete pandemonium in the assembly.
A couple of police officers are now inside the assembly to try to restore order. Pakatan reps shout at the police to leave the assembly.
At the same time, the BN reps are trying to force Sivakumar out of the speaker's chair but he is being protected by some Pakatan assemblypersons.
12.55pm: BN speaker Ganesan announces that the House will be adjourned for another hour. This is the second adjournment he has announced since been appointed by the BN as the speaker.
As he is unfamiliar with the House standing orders and has to be helped by BN exco Hamidah (Sungai Rapat), he is laughed at by Pakatan reps.
Despite the adjournment, all elected reps remain in the House, waiting for Round 3.
12.50pm: Umno Youth's Saiful Adli files a police report against Sivakumar for ordering Zambry and others out of the House. He says this is in contempt of court.
12.45pm: The situation turns ugly in the House. Pakatan rep Thomas Su (Pasir Pinji) ridicules Hee by offering her RM50 and shouting 'Go and die' in Cantonese.
Following this, another Pakatan rep Yew Tian Hoe (Aulong) throws two RM1 notes at the deputy speaker, prompting a vexed Hee to pick up the notes and tear them to pieces.
Other reps - from both sides of the divide - are recording the happenings in the House with their handphones.
Earlier, Yew claimed that Hee had sprayed him with pepper spray.
12.37pm: BN speaker Ganesan comes under heavy pressure from the Pakatan representatives to leave the house. Some of them even shouted at him to leave. "Ganesan, go out!" was among the shouts heard.
By now the BN elected representatives have come to support Ganesan, who is a top state MIC leader. Both sides are engaged in a heated argument, resulting in a minor scuffle among some of the reps, but this was quickly stopped by the remaining elected assemblypersons.
Ganesan remained seated in a chair belonging to a sergeant-at-arms and is refusing to budge.
12.15pm: ROUND 2 - SPEAKER VS SPEAKER
After an hour-long recess, the session continues with Pakatan speaker Sivakumar asking BN-appointed speaker Ganesan to leave the chamber.
Five Pakatan reps have gone to Ganesan to ask him to leave but latter is arguing with them over his status as the new speaker. BN reps are watching the arguments from the sidelines.
11.48am: Pakatan-elected representatives told Malaysiakini that their seating arrangements were changed before they entered the house this morning - moving their places from the right of the speaker to the left.
However, since they arrived into the House much earlier than the BN reps, they changed the seating arrangements back to when Pakatan was in power - their seats are now on the right of the speaker.
By convention, the ruling party sits on the right side of the speaker.
11.37am: A ceasefire seems to be in place.
Pakatan reps are still in discussion with Nizar while the BN reps are glued to their seats worried that Sivakumar would start the sitting if they leave the House.
11.30am: "As long as I am here, the other speaker (Ganesan) is haram (illegal)," says Sivakumar while attempting to start the assembly sitting. His microphone is still turned off.
11.25am: Pakatan reps walk over to their ousted MB Nizar to discuss their next strategy. The verbal salvos continue in the background.
11.23am: Sivakumar once again asks the 10 BN reps to leave the House. Failing which, he warns that he will not convene the sitting. But as far as BN reps are concerned, their speaker has adjourned the sitting for an hour. A shouting match erupts again.
11.21am: Amidst the pandemonium in the House, BN still manages to pass four motions. These include to (1) remove Sivakumar as the speaker, (2) to appoint Ganesan as the new speaker, (3) to appoint new state committee members and (4) to declare the tree assembly illegal.
11.20am: Zambry moves a motion to adjourn the sitting and the motion is passed.
The new speaker announces that the sitting has been adjourned.
Pakatan reps respond by shouting 'keluar'. But both sides return to their seats later while Sivakumar continues to occupy the speaker's seat. The House is calm again. The regent of Perak has yet to deliver the royal address.
11.13am: BN representatives seem to have the upper hand in the House now with new speaker Ganesan controlling the proceedings.
His microphone is the only one which is working at the moment. With Ganesan chairing the proceedings, BN is now moving a motion to appoint members of various state committees.
They are also moving a motion to declare that the tree-assembly held on March 3 was illegal. In that sitting, a motion moved by the Pakatan representatives to dissolve the assembly was passed. BN reps did not attend the sitting.
11.05am: Deputy speaker Hee Yit Foong, who is now a BN-friendly independent, announces that she has taken over from Sivakumar. Standing behind a cordon of BN state reps, she orders the sergeant-at-arms to expel Sivakumar. However, no action is taken by the sergeant-at-arms.
Zambry again reads out the motion to sack Sivakumar. All BN state reps raise their hands in support. Zambry also moves the motion to appoint R Ganesan as the new speaker. This is again backed by BN reps and the three BN-friendly Independents.
Ganesan walks into the assembly hall to accept the speaker's gown. He is quickly sworn in among the turmoil and signs the appointment document at the BN side of the assembly.
Sivakumar, who is still occupying the speaker's seat, keeps shouting "Speaker ini haram" (He is an illegal speaker) referring to Ganesan.
Ganesan conducts the assembly meeting from the floor among the BN state reps. Zambry tries to move a number of other motions.
10.35am: The Perak assembly is still at a stand-off. Sivakumar keeps repeating that BN MB Zambry's motion to sack him as speaker is "null and void" and orders the sergeant-at-arms to expel the 10 state assemblypersons. However, the sergeant-at-arms refuses to abide by the speaker's instruction.
A group of state reps from both sides surround Zambry as the shouting match continues. State assembly secretary Abdullah Antung tries to talk to the speaker but he is ignored by Sivakumar.
10.25am: Contrary to the chaos inside the assembly, the situation outside the state secretariat building is much calmer with the police successfully dispersing the crowd.
The police have widened the no-go cordon, as a result the coffee shops are deserted.
Earlier the police ordered all those having drinks in the restaurants to leave immediately. Many left without paying for their drinks. Two refused to budge and were arrested.
As for the regent's speech, the ousted MB describes it "as just a royal speech, nothing more than that. It is not opening the assembly."
4.30pm: PAS' Salahuddin Ayub says all the elected reps arrested earlier have been released.
4.05pm: Perak Regent Nazrin leaves the chamber. BN-appointed MB Zambry suggests for the House to be adjourned. Pakatan reps repeatedly shout ‘Dissolve the assembly’ again.
New speaker Ganesan adjourns the assembly to a date to be decided. Pakatan reps to call press conference.
4pm: PKR election strategy director and Batu parliamentarian Tian Chua is arrested outside the state secretariat building.
The police inform him that the area has been cordoned off. The opposition politician tells police that he is there to greet his Pakatan colleagues.
Although he is accompanied by PKR treasurer and Selayang MP William Leong and several other party leaders, the police only detain him. He is forcefully dragged to an unmarked police vehicle.
3.47pm: Raja Nazrin ends his royal speech. He did not touch on the ongoing political crisis in the state during his 30-minute speech.
He spoke on the stimulus packages and development of the state. A closing prayer session is underway.
3.36pm: Sivakumar's official car is seen returning to the state secretariat building with the same woman passenger.
3.16pm: Order is restored in the House and Raja Nazrin starts his royal address, which has been delayed for almost six hours. His speech touches on the stimulus packages unveiled by the prime minister.
3.15pm: ROUND 4 - BN SPEAKER FULLY IN CHARGE
Regent of Perak Raja Nazrin enters the House and talks to ousted MB Nizar and DAP's Ngeh Khoo Ham. Following this, Nizar tells all Pakatan reps to take their seat and they obey.
The police install a new chair for Ganesan as the old speaker's chair was damaged during the earlier scuffle. The plainclothes personnel have also left the House. Seah Leong Peng (DAP-Pasir Bedamar) complains his jacket was torn during the scuffle (right).
3.12pm: Sivakumar's official Toyota Camry bearing the registration plate 'AFD 999' is seen leaving the state secretariat building with a woman passenger but the speaker is not in the car.
3.10pm: Ganesan adjourns the House for a few minutes in order as the assembly waits for the Regent of Perak to deliver his royal address.
3.05pm: Ganesan starts chairing the meeting and calls for the customary prayers to be recited. He also calls for the removal of two Pakatan reps but no action is taken to do so.
Sivakumar's wife, who is in assembly, is enraged and demands to see her husband. The 'officials' then take her to see the Pakatan speaker but nobody else is allowed to meet him.
3pm: PAS Youth chief Salahuddin Ayub who was arrested this morning tells Malaysiakini via telephone that he is being held at the Sungai Senam police station in Ipoh.
He says some 40 others arrested this morning are also at the station. He adds that he gave a statement to the police but has not been informed when he will be released.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the police have released 13 people who were arrested this morning.
The exact number of those arrested could not be ascertained but DAP leader Lim Kit Siang said the number stood at 64.
2.55pm: The same group of 'officials' escort Ganesan to the speaker's chair and the speaker then started chairing the sitting.
2.41pm: Several uniformed police personnel grab hold of Sivakumar and forcibly remove him from the speaker's chair.
He was then dragged out of the House by a group of plainclothes personnel wearing tags which read 'official'. Sivakumar resists and shouts, "I am the legal speaker. Why am I being treated like this?" It cannot be ascertained if these were police personnel.
Pakatan reps try to shield him but more plainclothes personnel enter the House and manage to breakthrough the human barricade.
Several Pakatan reps are also dragged out and the ensuing melee sees several flower pots in the assembly are smashed.
2.35pm: Attempts by the sergeant-at-arms and state assembly staff to remove Sivakumar are being resisted by the speaker and Pakatan reps. Some other Pakatan assemblypersons are continuing with their attempts to eject BN speaker Ganesan from the house.
2.30pm: The situation is still chaotic in the house. The sergeant-at-arms is now trying to remove Sivakumar from the speaker's chair to allow Ganesan to assume the chair.
2.15pm: ROUND 3 - TUSSLE FOR SPEAKER'S SEAT
The assembly resumes. Pakatan reps are trying to physically stop Ganesan from entering the chamber.
There is a lot of pushing and shoving among the state reps. A few punches are being thrown about as well. A number of reps climb up the table. It is complete pandemonium in the assembly.
A couple of police officers are now inside the assembly to try to restore order. Pakatan reps shout at the police to leave the assembly.
At the same time, the BN reps are trying to force Sivakumar out of the speaker's chair but he is being protected by some Pakatan assemblypersons.
12.55pm: BN speaker Ganesan announces that the House will be adjourned for another hour. This is the second adjournment he has announced since been appointed by the BN as the speaker.
As he is unfamiliar with the House standing orders and has to be helped by BN exco Hamidah (Sungai Rapat), he is laughed at by Pakatan reps.
Despite the adjournment, all elected reps remain in the House, waiting for Round 3.
12.50pm: Umno Youth's Saiful Adli files a police report against Sivakumar for ordering Zambry and others out of the House. He says this is in contempt of court.
12.45pm: The situation turns ugly in the House. Pakatan rep Thomas Su (Pasir Pinji) ridicules Hee by offering her RM50 and shouting 'Go and die' in Cantonese.
Following this, another Pakatan rep Yew Tian Hoe (Aulong) throws two RM1 notes at the deputy speaker, prompting a vexed Hee to pick up the notes and tear them to pieces.
Other reps - from both sides of the divide - are recording the happenings in the House with their handphones.
Earlier, Yew claimed that Hee had sprayed him with pepper spray.
12.37pm: BN speaker Ganesan comes under heavy pressure from the Pakatan representatives to leave the house. Some of them even shouted at him to leave. "Ganesan, go out!" was among the shouts heard.
By now the BN elected representatives have come to support Ganesan, who is a top state MIC leader. Both sides are engaged in a heated argument, resulting in a minor scuffle among some of the reps, but this was quickly stopped by the remaining elected assemblypersons.
Ganesan remained seated in a chair belonging to a sergeant-at-arms and is refusing to budge.
12.15pm: ROUND 2 - SPEAKER VS SPEAKER
After an hour-long recess, the session continues with Pakatan speaker Sivakumar asking BN-appointed speaker Ganesan to leave the chamber.
Five Pakatan reps have gone to Ganesan to ask him to leave but latter is arguing with them over his status as the new speaker. BN reps are watching the arguments from the sidelines.
11.48am: Pakatan-elected representatives told Malaysiakini that their seating arrangements were changed before they entered the house this morning - moving their places from the right of the speaker to the left.
However, since they arrived into the House much earlier than the BN reps, they changed the seating arrangements back to when Pakatan was in power - their seats are now on the right of the speaker.
By convention, the ruling party sits on the right side of the speaker.
11.37am: A ceasefire seems to be in place.
Pakatan reps are still in discussion with Nizar while the BN reps are glued to their seats worried that Sivakumar would start the sitting if they leave the House.
11.30am: "As long as I am here, the other speaker (Ganesan) is haram (illegal)," says Sivakumar while attempting to start the assembly sitting. His microphone is still turned off.
11.25am: Pakatan reps walk over to their ousted MB Nizar to discuss their next strategy. The verbal salvos continue in the background.
11.23am: Sivakumar once again asks the 10 BN reps to leave the House. Failing which, he warns that he will not convene the sitting. But as far as BN reps are concerned, their speaker has adjourned the sitting for an hour. A shouting match erupts again.
11.21am: Amidst the pandemonium in the House, BN still manages to pass four motions. These include to (1) remove Sivakumar as the speaker, (2) to appoint Ganesan as the new speaker, (3) to appoint new state committee members and (4) to declare the tree assembly illegal.
11.20am: Zambry moves a motion to adjourn the sitting and the motion is passed.
The new speaker announces that the sitting has been adjourned.
Pakatan reps respond by shouting 'keluar'. But both sides return to their seats later while Sivakumar continues to occupy the speaker's seat. The House is calm again. The regent of Perak has yet to deliver the royal address.
11.13am: BN representatives seem to have the upper hand in the House now with new speaker Ganesan controlling the proceedings.
His microphone is the only one which is working at the moment. With Ganesan chairing the proceedings, BN is now moving a motion to appoint members of various state committees.
They are also moving a motion to declare that the tree-assembly held on March 3 was illegal. In that sitting, a motion moved by the Pakatan representatives to dissolve the assembly was passed. BN reps did not attend the sitting.
11.05am: Deputy speaker Hee Yit Foong, who is now a BN-friendly independent, announces that she has taken over from Sivakumar. Standing behind a cordon of BN state reps, she orders the sergeant-at-arms to expel Sivakumar. However, no action is taken by the sergeant-at-arms.
Zambry again reads out the motion to sack Sivakumar. All BN state reps raise their hands in support. Zambry also moves the motion to appoint R Ganesan as the new speaker. This is again backed by BN reps and the three BN-friendly Independents.
Ganesan walks into the assembly hall to accept the speaker's gown. He is quickly sworn in among the turmoil and signs the appointment document at the BN side of the assembly.
Sivakumar, who is still occupying the speaker's seat, keeps shouting "Speaker ini haram" (He is an illegal speaker) referring to Ganesan.
Ganesan conducts the assembly meeting from the floor among the BN state reps. Zambry tries to move a number of other motions.
10.35am: The Perak assembly is still at a stand-off. Sivakumar keeps repeating that BN MB Zambry's motion to sack him as speaker is "null and void" and orders the sergeant-at-arms to expel the 10 state assemblypersons. However, the sergeant-at-arms refuses to abide by the speaker's instruction.
A group of state reps from both sides surround Zambry as the shouting match continues. State assembly secretary Abdullah Antung tries to talk to the speaker but he is ignored by Sivakumar.
10.25am: Contrary to the chaos inside the assembly, the situation outside the state secretariat building is much calmer with the police successfully dispersing the crowd.
The police have widened the no-go cordon, as a result the coffee shops are deserted.
Earlier the police ordered all those having drinks in the restaurants to leave immediately. Many left without paying for their drinks. Two refused to budge and were arrested.