Lok Sabha adjourned as Opposition MPs raise slogans, tear business papers

Wednesday, 28 July 2021Newsdesk

The Lok Sabha saw unruly scenes Wednesday as loud protests by Opposition MPs forced an adjournment. Even as Speaker Om Birla conducted the question hour amid the din, MPs from Congress-led UPA and TMC kept shouting slogans and raising placards standing in the well of the House, forcing an abrupt adjournment at 12:05 pm till 12:30 pm.

New Delhi, 28 July 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, The Congress and Left MPs tore business papers and threw them on the officers’ table and chair. They intensified their protests at 12 noon, when Speaker Birla left and Rajendra Agrawal took the chair. BJP’s Nishikant Dubey stood up raising a notice on privilege motion against Congress MP and IT panel chairman Shashi Tharoor. Dubey, who has written multiple letters to the Speaker seeking Tharoor’s removal from the chairmanship of the committee, said the Congress leader was planning to take up the Pegasus issue in the panel, while MPs in the House “did not want to discuss but indulged in distractions” on the issue. Agrawal said the notice has been received and the speaker will look into it.

Source -indianexpress.com