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Lok Sabha adjourned till 2 p.m. over Mumbai violence, Assam riots
Monday August 13, 2012 02:30:39 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Lok
Sabha was Monday adjourned for the second time, this time till 2
p.m., after opposition members raised a ruckus over the violence
in Assam and its echoes in Mumbai.
Shiv Sena member Anant Geete raised the issue of Saturday's
violence in Mumbai that claimed two lives and left over 50 people
injured. The Shiv Sena demanded a statement from the government.
Congress member Sanjay Nirupam countered Geete by saying that the
government was taking action.
However, angry opposition members refused to be placated and they
rushed to the speaker's podium. The Shiv Sena members were waving
copies of the Sena mouthpiece, Saamna, on the Mumbai violence.
Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house till 2 p.m. amid
uproarious scenes.
Earlier, the house was adjourned till 12 noon after Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) members demanded that black money stashed
abroad be brought back.
Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house after BJP members refused
to allow proceedings to be run and rushed to the speaker's podium.
They kept shouting when Minister for Social Justice Mukul Wasnik
was replying on the issue of manual scavenging.
Wasnik said the government was bringing a new bill and would do
everything to end the practice, but his reply was drowned in the
ruckus.
This provoked Speaker Meira Kumar to say that she would have liked
it if the members had participated in the discussion related to
the issue.
The BJP's agitation in the lower house on the issue of comes as
yoga guru Baba Ramdev has threatened a "revolution" unless the
government brings back black money stashed abroad.
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