Both houses adjourned for the day amid uproar over police action against protesting students

Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day soon after it met for the post-lunch sitting on Tuesday, amid the Opposition's protest over police lathi charge on students protesting the NEET examination paper leak. The Upper House saw multiple adjournments. As soon as the House met for the post-lunch sitting, Opposition MPs started raising slogans. Following this, Deputy Chairman Harivansh adjourned the House for the day. Earlier on Tuesday, after official papers were laid on the table of the House, leader of the Opposition and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge rose to speak on the police action against students who had staged protests on Monday over the alleged leak of the medical entrance examination question papers. Kharge alleged that the protesting students were lathi-charged and police also used tear gas. His remarks triggered slogan-shouting by Treasury bench members, which was met with counter-slogans from the Opposition. Amid the uproar, Chairman C P Radhakrishnan adjourned the House till noon. When the House met again at noon, Secretary General P C Mody read out a message from the Lok Sabha amid continuing commotion. Mody informed the House that the Lok Sabha, in its sitting on Monday, had adopted a motion recommending that the Rajya Sabha elect two members to a joint committee on offices of profit to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of N R Elango and Deepak Prakash. With members continuing to protest, the Chairman adjourned the House for the second time till 2 pm.

Lok Sabha proceedings were washed out for the second day on Tuesday as opposition members protested seeking discussion on the NEET paper leak, the CJP protest and the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodha. The House was adjourned for the day after witnessing two repeated disruptions. As soon as the House took up the first question at 11 am, opposition members started raising slogans on the NEET paper leak and police baton-charge on protesting students. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla assured the members that they will get to raise their issues as per rules. However, when the protesting members did not relent, Birla adjourned the House. Later, as soon as the House resembled at 12 noon, the opposition members started raising slogans. Ministers laid parliamentary documents amid the din. As repeated request by the Chair to the opposition members to return to their seats failed to elicit a positive response, the House was adjourned till 2 pm. When the House met again, the protests and sloganeering by the opposition continued. Dilip Saikia, who was in the chair, appealed to the opposition members to go back to their seats and take part in the proceedings. However, the appeal was ignored by the opposition members, leading to the chair announcing adjournment of the House for the day. This was the second day of the Monsoon Session and on both days there was almost no business due to the opposition protest.