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Modi issue rocks Lok Sabha

The demand for ouster of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday rocked the Lok Sabha with angry members of the Congress party and several other opposition parties storming the well of the house and National Democratic Alliance ally, Telugu Desam Party insisting on making a statement leading to its adjournment for three hours.

As soon as the House assembled on the first day of the second phase of the Budget session, opposition members demanded suspension of Question Hour and taking up of the notices of adjournment motion saying as many as 56 members had given such notices.

In the din, TDP Parliamentary Party leader K Yerrannaidu was heard pleading with Deputy Speaker P M Sayeed to allow him to make a statement saying the house should discuss the Gujarat situation in the interest of the nation.

The Deputy Speaker vainly pleaded with the members to allow the Question Hour and said he would give them an opportunity to raise any issue during Zero Hour.

In a bid to counter opposition members, BJP members including Kirit Somaiyya and Kirti Azad kept on shouting slogans 'we want Zero Hour'.

Congress chief whip P R Dasmunsi insisted that the chair should allow adjournment motion even as opposition members including those of Congress, Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Muslim League trooped into the well in support of their demand.

"Modi is guilty and he should be removed," they shouted in unison, while some others demanded dismissal of the Gujarat government.

After the House was adjourned, leader of the opposition Sonia Gandhi was seen walking up to SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav who was sitting along with Communist Party India, Marxist, veteran Somnath Chatterjee apparently in a bid to chalk out a joint opposition strategy on the Gujarat issue.

Earlier, as the House met, it greeted a parliamentary delegation from Ghana with thumping of desks.

Later, it observed a minute's silence in the memory of four former members -- L Balaraman, K Narayana Rao, Surendra Jha Suman and Shankar Lal Sharma -- who passed away recently.

The Deputy Speaker made obituary references to the members. With pandemonium prevailing in the Deputy Speaker adjourned the House for the day.

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