New Delhi, August 11: There was pandemonium in Lok Sabha Tuesday as Congress members tore papers and threw them towards Deputy Speaker M Thambi Durai and continued their vociferous protest leading to repeated adjournment of proceedings, as government tried to take up business for the day.
Efforts to take up a discussion on the sustainable development goals, which was to be followed by a debate on issues arising out of IPL controversy, saw Congress members intensifying their protest on the Lalit Modi and Vyapam issues.
As the presiding officer tried to go ahead with the business ignoring the protest, some Congress members tore papers and threw them towards the Deputy Speaker leading to the adjournment.
At one point, water resources minister Uma Bharti, Jagdambika Pal, Kirron Kher and other BJP members also came to the well to protest against the unruly behaviour of the Congress members.
The House was adjourned for the day after two adjournments as there was no let up in the protest despite Speaker Sumitra Mahajan strongly expressing anguish over the developments. “I am extremely sad over the way you (Congress members) behaved with the chair,” she observed before adjourning the House for the day.
“The way the papers were thrown at Deputy Speaker cannot be pardoned. This is not the way. Is it a way (to behave)? I am warning you…throwing paper is not proper,” she said.
Earlier in the day, Mahajan had come down hard on opposition members saying, “This is murder of democracy. This is not democracy. As many as 440 members want to talk and 40-50 members are not letting them. Let people know how irresponsible they are. The Chair has no wish to be seen on TV. Let people watch them.”
The Speaker further said that she had asked Lok Sabha TV to show pandemonium in the House on television.
“Show them on TV. I am requesting Lok Sabha TV. This is not the way. I won’t adjourn the House… Let people see what kind of behaviour they are showing. Let the whole of India watch. Forty people are hijacking the rights of 440 members,” she said. PTI
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