NEW DELHI (PTI): Amidst unprecedented uproarious scenes the Lok Sabha (Lower House) Dec.16 adopted a government resolution condemning the desecration and demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya before adjourning for the day without transacting any other business.
A four-hour adjournment earlier failed to pacify the unrelenting BJP members who demanded the presence of their arrested leader L.K.Advani in the house.
As the house reassembled at 1600 hours speaker Shivraj Patil asked the government to lay papers on the table of the house but the agitated BJP members stormed into the well of the house shouting slogans “no Advani no house.”
As some of them menacingly advanced toward the prime minister several ruling party members immediately threw a protective cordon around Narasimha Rao.
The BJP members also demanded resignation of the prime minister for what they called the “murder of democracy” for the dismissal of the three BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The demolition of the Babri mosque at Ayodhya dominated proceedings in the Indian parliament which resumed Wednesday after a week.
In extraordinary steps the speaker of the lower house of the Indian parliament Shivray V Patil Wednesday Suo Motu suspended question hour for taking up discussion on the demolition of the Babri mosque and subsequent events.
Though marked by procedural wrangles the deputy leader of the Right Wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the house Jaswant Singh was allowed to initiate a discussion in which he lambasted the arrest of leader of the opposition L.K.Advani saying without him there could be no purposeful debate.
The Congress (I) and non-BJP members initially objected to the BJP member taking the floor and wanted to know from the Speaker under what rules he was being allowed to speak.
This enraged BJP members who attempted to rush to the well of the house but were pacified by party leaders.
Jaswant Singh and Madan Lal Khurana said they were not demanding Advanis release but his production in the house to explain the party’s view. Khurana said he may continue to be held in Tihar.
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