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After 13 days of disruption, monsoon session ends
Friday September 07, 2012 02:57:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Parliament
was adjourned sine die Friday, after a month-long monsoon session
that witnessed 13 days of disruption in 20-day session.
The session ended after the last day's proceedings too were
disrupted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over coal block
allocations.
Other opposition parties joined the protests over various issues,
including the alleged involvement of a central minister from the
DMK in the coal block allocations that the Comptroller and Auditor
General said caused a presumptive loss of Rs.1.86 lakh crore ($37
billion).
Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the Lok Sabha sine die after some
papers listed in the day's business were laid on the table of the
house at 12 noon, when the house met again following question hour
being washed out earlier in the day because of a short-term
adjournment.
The Rajya Sabha saw two adjournments on the last day of the
session, before being dismissed sine die.
The first adjournment came soon after the house met at 11 a.m. BJP
members were once again on their feet shouting slogans demanding
the prime minister's resignation for the alleged faulty allocation
of coal blocks.
Samajwadi Party MPs also created a ruckus against the Constitution
Amendment Bill to provide reservations in government job
promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and trooped
near the chairman's podium.
The upper house was first adjourned till noon, and then till 12.45
p.m.
When the house met again at 12.45 p.m., Chairman Hamid Ansari
adjourned it sine die.
Ansari informed the members that only 11 questions were answered
orally in the whole session, of 399 listed. The question hour
could be held only on one day in the entire session.
"Altogether, 62 hours were lost to disruptions," Ansari said.
The chairman, as part of routine procedure, thanked the members
for the "courtesy extended". This caused spontaneous laughter.
The monsoon session of parliament started Aug 8.
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