Lok Sabha adjourned till 12 noon amid vehement opposition protests
New Delhi (PTI): Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till 12 noon on Wednesday following vociferous protests by opposition members over various issues, including the hike in LPG prices.
As soon as the House met for the day, opposition members raised various issues and shouted slogans. Several of them took to sloganeering in the Well of the House.
When it was Congress member Kumari Selja's turn to ask a question, she just remarked that the government should first reduce the LPG price.
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Responding to queries, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw took a swipe at the opposition members, saying that they seemed uninterested in the nation's progress.
Dilip Saika, who was in the Chair, urged the protesting members to be seated and told them that they would get opportunities to raise issues after the Question Hour.
Message will go out that the government wants to run the House, but the opposition does not want it to function, Saika said as he repeatedly requested the members to go back to their seats.
However, the protests continued, forcing the Chair to adjourn the proceedings till 12 noon.
During the Question Hour on Wednesday, six questions and supplementaries related to the information technology and railway ministries were taken up.
The government and the opposition are at loggerheads over various issues, and the House has been witnessing disruptions during the Budget session, the second phase of which started on Monday.
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Whenever we stand up to speak, we are stopped: Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha
New Delhi (PTI): Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday interjected a Lok Sabha debate on the resolution to remove Om Birla as Speaker, saying that he was stopped from speaking in the House on multiple occasions.
Responding to BJP's Ravi Shankar Prasad, who cited parliamentary procedures to say that the leader of the opposition should measure his words carefully, especially on issues of national security, Gandhi said the House does not belong to any party but the entire country.
"Whenever we get up to speak, we are stopped. Lok Sabha does not belong to one party but to the entire country," he said.
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Earlier, participating in the debate on the resolution against Birla, Ravi Shankar Prasad had said that the motion to remove the Speaker from his post should not be weaponised to "satisfy" the ego of a leader.
He said it was painful that the House is discussing the resolution as it is the result of the ego of a leader.
Quoting Practice and Procedures of Parliament, Prasad said the leader of the opposition should measure his words carefully, especially on issues of national security, and that he should eschew partisan politics.
This led to an uproar from the opposition.
Later, Dilip Saikia, who was chairing the proceedings, allowed Gandhi to respond to the allegations.
