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Storm over Telangana, price rise disrupts
Lok Sabha
Tuesday April 24, 2012 01:00:08 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
It was back to adjournments as the Lok Sabha met after a
three-week break Tuesday with members from Telangana raising the
issue of statehood to the region and Left parties demanding a
discussion on spiralling prices.
The Lok Sabha was first adjourned till 12 noon shortly after it
began its sitting, and again till 2 p.m.
Trouble began shortly after the house assembled for the day. There
were obituary references for N.K.P. Salve and Dinesh Pratap Singh,
former members of the house, following which Speaker Meira Kumar
took up question hour.
But MPs from the Telangana region, including those from the
Congress, raised the statehood issue and started shouting slogans.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee were in the house as the party MPs from Telangana
disrupted proceedings, refusing to heed the requests of senior
ministers P. Chidambaram and Pawan Kumar Bansal to get back to
their seats.
The Telangana MPs were joined by the Left members, who wanted
suspension of the question hour to discuss the isue of spiralling
price rise. They wanted the speaker to take up their notice in
this regard.
"I have received your notice. I will allow you to raise the issue
during zero hour. Let the question hour continue," Meira Kumar
told them.
The shouting, though, remained unabated despite Meira Kumar's
repeated appeals to them to let the house continue on with
question hour.
Some of the members trooped out of their seats towards the
speaker's chair. They also did not heed the speaker's advice to
return to their seats.
Meira Kumar was then forced to adjourn the house till noon.
When the house resumed its sitting after the brief disruption, the
scenes were repeated by the Telangana MPs.
But Meira Kumar quickly went through the list of business, asking
ministers and members to lay papers as per the list of business
for the day.
The speaker called for zero hour, but the shouting and disruptions
continued, resulting in her adjourning the house till 2 p.m.
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