NEW DELHI, JUL 21 (AGENCIES): The second day of Parliament’s Monsoon Session began on a stormy note with the NEET paper leak, lathi-charge on students who protested in Delhi on Monday and the Ayodhya Ram temple donation theft row triggering outrage in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
When the Lok Sabha took up the first question at 11 am, Opposition members sloganeered on the NEET paper leak and police baton-charge on protesting students.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla assured the members that they would get to raise their issues as per rules. However, when the protesting members did not relent, Birla adjourned the House.
On reassembling, Dilip Saikia, who was in the chair, asked the Opposition members to go back to their seats and take part in the proceedings. However, the appeal failed to evoke a smooth response by the Opposition members, leading to the Chair announcing adjournment of the House for the day.
Rajya Sabha proceedings were also adjourned for the day soon after it resumed for the post-lunch sitting amid the Opposition’s protest over police lathi charge on students protesting the NEET examination paper leak.
Earlier, after official papers were laid on the table of the House. Kharge alleged that the protesting students were lathi-charged and police also used tear gas. His remarks sparked sloganeering by Treasury bench members. Reacting to it, the Opposition counter-sloganeered.
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