New Delhi (PTI): Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the second time on Friday till 3 pm amid vociferous protests by opposition parties demanding a discussion on the voter roll revision in Bihar.
Opposition members raised slogans like "SIR wapas lo (roll back SIR), SIR pe charcha karo (take up discussion on SIR)" in the House, referring to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls currently underway in Bihar.
Some members were even seen banging the table of the Lok Sabha Speaker, which was strongly objected to by the presiding officer Krishna Prasad Tenneti.
"Yeh dhol nahi hai (this is not a drum). You cannot bang the table like this. I take strong objection to banging the table of the Speaker of Lok Sabha," Tenneti, a TDP member, said.
With the members unrelenting in their protests, Tenneti, who was in the chair, adjourned the proceedings till 3 pm.
Earlier, when the House convened at 11 am, Speaker Om Birla paid homage to former Lok Sabha member and former Governor Satyapal Malik who passed away on August 5. He also read out a reference on the anniversary of the Quit India Movement.
Soon after the Speaker read out the references, opposition members shouted slogans, displayed placards and some of them were in the Well as they protested against the SIR.
Despite the din, five questions and supplementaries were taken up during the 23 minutes of the Question Hour.
With no let up in the protests, the Speaker adjourned the proceedings till 12 noon.
The Opposition has been demanding a discussion on the SIR exercise initiated by the Election Commission in Bihar ahead of the Assembly elections in the state.
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Bengaluru: Karnataka High Court has issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) following the filing of application by Congress MLA Vinay Kulkarni and Chandrashekhar Indi challenging the life imprisonment awarded to them by the Special Court for murder of BJP Dharwad leader Yogish Gowda.
The divisional bench comprising Justices Muhammad Nawaz and T Venkatesh Naik heard the pleas filed by Kulkarni on April 15 and Chandrashekhar Indi also called Chandu Mama on April 16.
The bench has now issued a notice to the CBI and also directed the HC Registry to obtain the trial court documents before adjourning the hearing.
