LS adjourned till noon over Andhra demand, PNB scam
TNN Bureau. Updated: 3/12/2018 12:53:09 PM
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New Delhi, Mar 12 : Diverse issues, including Andhra demand for special category status and banking scams, disrupted the proceedings in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
As the House assembled for the day, slogan-shouting members stormed into the Well and creating a ruckus, forcing Speaker Sumitra Mahajan to adjourn the proceedings of the House till noon.
Protests in the Lok Sabha over the range of diverse issues continued disrupting the resumed Budget Session.
All the protesting members, including from the Telugu Desam Party, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kaghazam, YSR Congress and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), trooped into the Well, raising anti-government slogans and displaying placards.
AIADMK lawmakers demanded setting up of Cauvery Water Management Board while Telugu Desam Party members and YSR Congress Members carried placards demanding Special Category status for Andhra Pradesh.
TRS members were demanding to increase the quota of reservation in Telangana State.
The Indian National Congress and All India Trinamool Congress members raised anti-Government slogans on the banking frauds in which diamond merchant Nirav Modi was allegedly allowed to flee the country.
Within three minutes of assembling, the Speaker adjourned proceedings till 1200 hrs, without conducting Question Hour.