With the party demanding resignation of Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, yet another day of Parliament was lost on Wednesday to pandemonium over Tuesday's police action on Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing workers protesting against corruption in New Delhi. Mr. Chidambaram was blamed by the BJP for ordering a lathi charge on its youth wing workers and its members created uproar in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, disrupting proceedings from the time the Houses met for the day. The Finance Minister Pranab Mukherji was met by the senior BJP leader L.K. Advani inorder to complaint that the police action against the youth wing workers might have been ordered by Mr. Chidambaram. The opposition leaders in the two Houses Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley demanded Mr. Chidambaram's resignation as it was alleged by them that the corrupt government was resorting to brutality as it did not like anyone to protest against corruption. Both the Houses were adjourned for an hour in the Parliament because of the uproar when they met for the day at 11.am. In Rajya Sabha also a similar situation existed that forced the chair to adjourn the House till Thursday while the Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2.pm before being adjourned for the day. The BJP members, in Rajya Sabha, trooped into the wells shouting slogans, lathi goli ki sarkar, nahin chalegi.
They displayed the photographs of wounded workers as also the banners against the Government, demanding for Mr. Chidambaram's resignation. Then the Shiv Sena, the Akali Dal and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam members stood up in support, when the BJP members were protesting in the well. It was countered and demanded by the Congress members that the Question Hour to be taken up.
Then till noon, the Chairman Hamid Ansari adjourned the House. It was action replay when the House met again. The Deputy Chairman K. Rahman Khan pleaded for order even as the BJP kept raising slogans. Amid the pandemonium, Mr. Khan asked the Ministers to lay papers and called for resumption of the short duration discussion on Sports Minister Ajay Maken's statement on Common Wealth Games which remained inconclusive on Tuesday. Because of the ruckus this could not happen and the House was adjourned by him for the day. Two adjournments were witnessed by Lok Sabha in the pre-lunch sitting on the two issues and the chair finally called it a day when it reassembled at 2.pm.
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