Parliament adjourned; Mulayam meets left, TDP leaders

NEW DELHI, August 30, 2012 (PTI)



The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day today amid din as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) persisted with its demand for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation provoking Congress members to raise slogans.



The deadlock in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over the CAG report on coal block allocation issue entered its seventh day as the Houses met after a day's break on account of Onam.



The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm.



In the Lok Sabha, Speaker Meira Kumar took up the Question Hour but nothing could be heard in the din.



BJP members trooped to the Well raising slogans against the Prime Minister. They were countered by Congress members who raised slogans backing the Prime Minister.



AIADMK and DMK members too were heard raising slogans against the government for training Sri Lankan forces at airbases in India.



With members unrelenting, the Speaker adjourned the House for the day.



Dharna tomorrow



With Parliament proceedings continuing to be disrupted over the coal block allocation issue, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today met leaders of CPI, CPI(M) and TDP and decided to hold a dharna tomorrow to demand restoration of normalcy in the House and a debate on the issue.



Other Opposition parties, even those from the BJP-led NDA like JD(U) and Akali Dal, do not favour disruption of proceedings and have been demanding debate on the CAG report into the coal block allocation and other issues.



Apart from Mr Yadav, sources said the meeting was attended by CPI(M) leader Basudeb Acharia, CPI's Gurudas Dasgupta and TDP's Nama Nageshwar Rao.



The leaders of these parties decided to hold a sit-in of their MPs inside the Parliament House complex tomorrow.



The sources said MPs of some other non-UPA parties are also likely to join the dharna and talks were on with them.



Mr Yadav also sought an inquiry into the coal blocks allocation by a sitting Supreme Court judge.



\'Coal\' blocks Rajya Sabha



In Rajya Sabha, BJP members started shouting "coal, coal, coal..." as soon as Chairman Hamid Ansari took up the first listed question of the day.



BJP-led NDA members shouted slogans demanding resignation of the Prime Minister.



All the while, ruling Congress members countered the slogan shouting by praising the Prime Minister.



Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office V Narayanasamy, against whose name the first question of the day on time limit for action against corrupt officials was listed, said he was prepared to reply.



"It is a very important question. I am ready to answer...people of this country should know the action being taken," he said amid slogan shouting.



For a few minutes Mr Ansari tried to conduct the proceedings, asking members to raise supplementaries.



But, as slogan shouting BJP members started coming to the Well, he adjourned the House till 2 pm.
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