By IANS,
New Delhi : The day in the Lok Sabha started Monday with slogans against the government’s plan to start a development authority for drought-hit Bundelkhand and ended on the same note with noisy protests by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MPs leading to the house being adjourned for the day.
In between the two adjournments on the Bundelkhand issue, the house was adjourned twice — over the Samajwadi Party’s allegations that Uttar Pradesh was not being given its due share of Reliance Industries’ Krishna-Godavari gas and the Trinamool Congress raising the issue of killings in West Bengal.
The final adjournment of the day came when BSP members gathered near the speaker’s podium against the government’s move to set up a separate Bundelkhand development authority for the region that is spread across Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
When the house assembled at 3 p.m., Deputy Speaker Kariya Munda invited Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Basudeb Acharia to speak on the issue of price rise, but Trinamool Congress leaders from West Bengal protested and urged the chair to allow them to speak on the issue of killings in West Bengal.
Finally, Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyaya was invited to speak on the issue, but Left MPs protested and BSP members raised the Bundelkhand issue.
After two minutes of Bandyopadhyaya’s speech, the deputy speaker invited Acharia to speak but the Trinamool Congress protested even as BSP members kept up their din.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and his minister of state V. Narayanasamy tried but failed to bring order — even in the ruling benches.
Munda allowed Bandyopadhyaya to lay his speech on West Bengal killings on the table of the house and asked Acharia to continue his speech.
But the BSP continued their slogan shouting against the government on Bundelkhand and the house had to be adjourned for the day at 3.20 p.m.
The house was adjourned for the first time when Left parties, the BSP and the Samajwadi Party joined hands to oppose the Congress-led government’s plan on Bundelkhand.
The second adjournment came about when Samajwadi Party members alleged that Uttar Pradesh was not being given its due share of Reliance Industries’ Krishna-Godavari gas even after Petroleum Minister Murli Deora explained the government’s stand on the matter.
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the third time with the Trinamool Congress protests.