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Demonetisation disrupts proceedings, LS to meet on Dec 14

Demonetisation disrupts proceedings, LS to meet on Dec 14
New Delhi, Dec 9 (UNI) Continued bedlam by the slogan raising Opposition members today over the demonetisation issue forced adjournment of the Lok Sabha for the day. Due to holidays on Monday and Tuesday, the House will again meet on December 14, Wednesday. While December 13 is a declared Holiday, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had informed Lok Sabha yesterday that the Business Advisory Committee had recommended that the sitting of the House fixed for Monday, December 12 may be cancelled on account of Milad-Un-Nabi or Id-E-Milad. The Lok Sabha proceedings today were far from normal right from the beginning as during Question Hour, the ruling BJP members for a change targeted the opposition saying they should tender apology for continued disruption of the House proceedings during the Winter Session that begun on November 16. President Pranab Mukehrjee's outburst yesterday at a function over pandemonium and continuous non-functioning of Parliament ever since the Winter Session began provided ready fuel to the Treasury benches to attack the Opposition. The House was first adjourned within five minutes. When it reassembled at 1130 hrs, Leader of Congress in the House Mallikarjun Kharge said his party was ready for debate on demonetisation ''here and now'', upon which BJP member Meenakshi Lekhi said the Opposition should tender apology to the nation for their conduct. If they wanted to stage protests and dharna, there were places like the Jantar Mantar, Ms Lekhi said reading out from the President's speech. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar also asked the Opposition to apologise for wasting public money and time. The remarks made by Ms Lekhi and Mr Kumar saw members of the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the Left and other parties on their feet and demanding apology from the ruling side over demonetisation. The BJP members were also up on their feet supporting the demand of Ms Lekhi and Mr Kumar. The House was subsequently adjourned till 1200 hrs. There was no improvement in the situation later also and when the House reassembled, the Opposition members rushed into the Well raising anti-government slogans. After laying of papers and reports of various committees, the House took up the motion of suspension against AAP member from Sangrur Bhagwant Mann. The House adopted a motion suspending Mann for the remaining period of the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament for ''breach'' of Parliament security. The motion was moved by Kirit Somaiya, chairman of the nine-member panel set up by the Speaker after the Sangrur MP from Punjab courted a controversy in July by uploading a video of the Parliament premises on the social networking site. Amid the din, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar introduced the National Institutes of Technology, Science Education and Research (amendment) Bill. Just as the Opposition members continued their sloganeering and insisted that the debate on demonetisation should take place only under a rule that entails voting, the Speaker adjourned the House for the day and said it will resume business on Wednesday only. Earlier, when the House was adjourned till 1130 hrs, BJP members, including L K Advani, Hemamalini and Union Ministers Arun Jaitley and Manohor Parrikar were seen greeting Congress President Sonia Gandhi on her birthday. UNI DEVN AE 1333
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