Live: Lok Sabha adjourned over coal files, Food Security Bill gets derailed

New Delhi: 2:06 pm: The Lok Sabha has been adjourned till Thursday after uproar over missing coalgate files. This even as the Congress was hoping to debate and pass the Food Security Bill.

1:57 pm: Sources say the Prime Minister is unlikely to make a statement on missing coalgate files.

1:02 pm: The Lok Sabha resumed only to be adjourned again till 2 pm as the uproar over the coal scam missing files. The BJP continues to demand Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement in the Lok Sabha.

12:26 pm: The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 2 pm following the chaos over the coal scam missing files. This came after Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal made a statement on missing files and the Opposition countered his statements and demanded more information.

12:18 pm: "Files don't disappear, they are made to disappear," says Arun Jaitley in the Rajya Sabha.

12:16 pm: Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal says, "I am ready to go through any punishment if allegations against me are proved true. We will search for any files that are missing and hand them to the CBI. 13 FIRs were registered in the coal scam. 769 files have been submitted to CBI in the coal scam probe."

12:13 pm: Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal is making a statement on the coal scam in the Rajya Sabha despite the uproar.

12:10 pm: The Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 1 pm as the BJP sticks to its demand for the Prime Minister's statement over the missing coalgate files.

12:08 pm: Uproar in the Lok Sabha as NDA demands reply from the PM. The Chair tells NDA that it is the collective responsibility of the government and that the Coal Minister can reply to the queries.

12:05 pm: Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien says, "We can't hold anyone guilty on this basis. Its up to the government on who they want to make that statement. I cannot direct the government."

12:04 pm: Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley says, "This is a matter in which preferably the PM should make the statement."

11:47 am: Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 12 noon after the uproar over missing coalgate files. The government says Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal is ready to make a statement, but the BJP wants the PM to make a statement.

11:41 am: The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 12 as uproar over the missing coalgate files continued.

11:33 am: Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj raised the missing coal scam files issue in the Lok Sabha even as the Congress was hoping to debate and pass the Food Bill. But the BJP dies not seem to be letting the government go ahead. The BJP is demanding a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on missing coalgate files.

11:25 am: While the Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 11:30 am, the Rajya Sabha resumed after a brief adjournment. But the uproar continues ad BJP MPs demanded a statement from the Prime Minister on the missing coalgate files.

11:21 am: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi ahead of the Food Bill discussion in the Lok Sabha. Congress sources say they are ready to suspend disrupting party MPs for the passage of the Food Bill.

11:12 am: The Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha have begun once again with uproar on Tuesday. While in Rajya Sabha, there was uproar over missing coalgate files, in the Lok Sabha, where the Congress is hoping to push through the Food Bill, TDP MPs created an uproar over Telangana.

The United Progressive Alliance has been hopeful that its ambitious Food Security Bill will be passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday but the Bharatiya Janata Party has kept the Congress guessing over it. The government has agreed to some amendments to win over key allies and has already spoke to Samajwadi party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and the Telugu Desam Party, which has been constantly disrupting the House.

The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has, however, said that it will protest against the suspension of TDP MPs who have been disrupting proceedings as it has already taken the position that no bill should be passed during din in the House.

While the revised bill may or may not be passed, but Delhi, Haryana and Uttarakhand will becomes the first states to unveil it today. UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi will officialy launch the food security program from Delhi's Talkatora stadium later today (August 20), which is also late Prime Minster Rajiv Gandhi's 69th birth anniversary.

The scheme is being rolled out using the ordinance promulgated in July this year as it is believed to be the game changer for the Congress in 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Earlier, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had sounded optimistic that all parties would support the bill and was open to discussion. "By and large everybody will support the bill. The main opposition BJP said they have options. An ordinance has been submitted and that will be discussed. Just because of ordinance I don't think all parties should come and stamp it. Still we are open to discussion," he said.