New Delhi, Feb 5: A "fake encounter" in Noida rocked the Rajya Sabha leading to a washout of the morning session on Monday with chairman M Venkaiah Naidu admonishing MPs for disrupting the proceedings.
As soon as the House assembled for the Zero Hour, Samajwadi Party MPs, led by Naresh Agrawal, were on their feet demanding that the business of the House be suspended to discuss the near-fatal shooting of a gym instructor on Saturday night.
Jitendra Yadav (25) was shot by Sub Inspector Vijay Darshan in Noida, near Delhi, while the gym instructor was returning home on Saturday night.
Naidu did not permit the motion and asked the SP members to raise it through other means, prompting them to rush to the Well of the House and start shouting slogans.
Meanwhile, Congress MP K V P Ramachandra Rao also rushed to the Well with a silent protest placard demanding justice for Andhra Pradesh in the Union Budget.
"Let's not have an encounter with the Zero Hour...you don't want the House not to run…Nobody can dictate to me," Naidu said, asking SP MPs and Rao to return to their seats so that he could take up Zero Hour matters.
The SP MPs did not relent and Naidu called Trinamool Congress' Derek O'Brien to raise the issue of stoppage of eight railway routes in West Bengal.
Naidu then tried to go to the second speaker, CPM's K K Ragesh, but the sloganeering intensified.
"You are determined not to run the House. You are not interested in people's problems. You want to disrupt the House. You want to get some publicity. I am adjourning the House," the chairman said.
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