New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the second time and the Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm on Monday over demands for the tabling of the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition.
The House -- which had reconvened at noon after an earlier adjournment over the issue -- had to be adjourned again till 2 pm as opposition MPs were not satisfied with the assurance of union Home Minister P Chidambaram that the report would be tabled in the current winter session of parliament.
The opposition MPs -- mainly from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- wanted the report to be tabled at once and "not on the last day of the session", as one of them said.
Chidambaram had told the house earlier that only one official in the home ministry had access to the Liberhan Commission report, and was working to write up the action taken report by the government.
A report in the Indian Express on Monday said the commission has indicted former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as well as senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi for their role in the demolition.
Lok Sabha adjourned again over Liberhan row
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm following the opposition's vociferous demands that the Liberhan Commission of Inquiry report into the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition be tabled immediately.
The house was initially adjourned till 12 noon. However, the chaos continued when the house reconvened.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders raised slogans and gathered near Speaker Meira Kumar's podium demanding the tabling of the report.
The speaker allowed union minister for New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah to make a statement on the national solar mission, but was forced to adjourn the house as the pandemonium continued.
The uproar had started as soon as the house met at 11 am with the BJP demanding that the report be tabled in the house, following a media report that the Liberhan Commission had indicted senior party leaders, including Atal Bihari Vajpayee and LK Advani. Home Minister P Chidambaram said there had been no leakage of the report.
There was only one copy of the report and that was with the home ministry, he said.
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