Lok Sabha adjourned over Darjeeling issue


New Delhi, Aug 14 (IANS): The Lok Sabha was adjourned Wednesday till 2 pm after a spat between the BJP and the Trinamool Congress on the Darjeeling issue.

During zero hour, as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Jaswant Singh raised the issue of autonomy to Darjeeling, Trinamool members got agitated and tried to shout him down.

The TDP MPs also raised anti-Telangana slogans near the speaker's podium.

Amid the din, the chair adjourned the house till 2 p.m.

Earlier, the house was adjourned till noon over the Supreme Court order cancelling reservations in the faculty for super-speciality medical and engineering courses.

The government said it would bring an amendment to negate the Supreme Court order.

"We will bring a constitutional amendment bill in this session," Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath told the Lok Sabha after members united against the court order and asked the government to take steps to reverse it.

"We will file a review petition in the Supreme Court against the said order. If the petition is rejected, we will bring a constitutional amendment bill," Law Minister Kapil Sibal said in the house.

However, the members were still agitated and the house had to be adjourned till noon.

Members of the Congress, BJP, Left parties, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Janata Dal-United, Biju Janata Dal, Akali Dal, Shiv Sena, DMK and AIADMK wanted the government to take steps to nullify the court order.

  

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