Long way to strike 12: Ansari tells MPs

"There is a long way to go for 12 O' clock (midnight)." This is what Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari told Communist Party of India-Marxist Sitaram Yechury when he sought to know whether the session will continue beyond midnight.

With just 40 minutes left for the clock to strike 12, Yechury interrupted Minister of State V Narayanasami, who was replying to the debate on Lokpal Bill in Rajya Sabha, and said most of the MPs wanted a clear picture on the issue as the session was to end on December 29.

As members from BJP also joined the demand to seek a ruling from the Chair on the issue, Ansari parried the issue. When Ansari said there is a long way to go for 12 O' clock, Yechury shot back, "Narayanasami can go a long way (speaking).