Last day of session: parliament disrupted again
September 7th, 2012 - 1:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Both houses of parliament were adjourned till noon soon after meeting on the last day of the monsoon session Friday. The opposition, led by the BJP, once again raised the issue of coal block allocations and the official auditor’s report on presumptive loss of Rs.1.86 lakh crore ($37 billion).
The Bharatiya Janata Party members trooped towards the podiums of the presiding officer raising slogans on coal block allocations and demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house minutes after it met. In the Rajya Sabha, Chairman Hamid Ansari adjourned the house after he read out a farewell message for Secretary-General V.K. Agnihotri, whose term comes to an end later this month.
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