The Lok Sabha was on Tuesday adjourned for the day, virtually without transacting any substantial business, after Congress members created an uproar over a range of issues, including remarks made by certain BJP MPs against its leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and the revocation of suspension of six of its members.
Congress and opposition parties were also demanding a discussion on the lynching incidents in the country in the name of cow protection.
Scindia said BJP MPs Veerendra Kumar and Nandkumar Singh Chouhan had levelled certain allegations against him pertaining to the Dalit community.
He said if these remarks were found to be true, then he would quit as the member of the House and demanded that if the BJP leaders failed to prove their allegation, then they should tender their resignations. "My image has been tarnished," Kharge said.
Mallikarjun Kharge, the Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, defended Scindia and said the Guna MP has been fighting for the well-being of the Dalits in the House over the last 15 years.
As Congress members, including Scindia, Kantilal Bhuria, K C Venugopal and Ravneet Singh Bittu, rushed to the Well, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said she was trying to accomodate everyone by allowing them to ventilate their concerns.
However, members from the treasury benches also vociferously responded to the Congress charge, leading to a ruckus in the House.
This led Mahajan to warn the members that if any one of the officials or the Secretary General are harmed by mistake, then consequences would not be good.
Anguished over the unruly scenes, the Speaker said "if you are bent upon creating a ruckus, how will the House run? I have told you to raise your concerns under the rules ...
Don't try to teach me (how to run the House)".
Kharge said the opposition also wants the House to function. He also accused Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar of trying to "pour petrol into the fire".
As the din continued, Mahajan adjourned the House for the day.
Soon after the House had reassembled at 3 PM, the Speaker ordered the listed papers to be laid.