Lok Sabha adjourned after MP falls sick during budget speech

August 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die on Friday concluding the first, month long session of the newly constituted House. Friday was the concluding day of the ongoing budget session of the 15th Lok Sabha, which began on July 2 with the presentation of the Economic Survey, followed by the Railway Budget on July 3 and the General Budget on July 6.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The day in the Lok Sabha started Monday with slogans against the government's plan to start a development authority for drought-hit Bundelkhand and ended on the same note with noisy protests by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MPs leading to the house being adjourned for the day. In between the two adjournments on the Bundelkhand issue, the house was adjourned twice -- over the Samajwadi Party's allegations that Uttar Pradesh was not being given its due share of Reliance Industries' Krishna-Godavari gas and the Trinamool Congress raising the issue of killings in West Bengal.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha was adjourned 16 minutes before schedule Friday over the issue of a lack of quorum and the poor attendance of MPs. When Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Minister V.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the third time Wednesday, as soon as it convened after lunch, as opposition MPs shouted slogans against the government. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had been scheduled to make a statement on the India-Pakistan joint statement.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Lok Sabha was twice adjourned Wednesday as Samajwadi Party (SP) members disrupted proceedings over the issue of stopping fuel supply to the Dadri energy plant in Uttar Pradesh. SP leaders gathered near Speaker Meira Kumar's podium and demanded that she allow them to raise the issue in the house.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day and the Lok Sabha for the third time Thursday following chaos over the arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the arson attack on her house by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) workers. The Rajya Sabha was first adjourned almost as soon as it had convened.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day Thursday afternoon following chaos in the house over the arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the arson attack on her house. Members of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) raised slogans against the Congress and rushed to the well of the house.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day Thursday due to chaos over the arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the arson attack on her house. Joshi has been charged with insulting state Chief Minister Mayawati and has been sent to judicial custody.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Both houses of the Indian parliament were adjourned Thursday following chaos over the arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the arson attack on her house. Congress MPs were on their feet as soon as the house convened in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

July 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Friday adjourned the house till 2 p.m. following the protests by Congress MPs from Gujarat, who raised the issue of the illicit liquor tragedy in Ahmedabad which has claimed at least 136 lives so far.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Some MPs are too noisy, but some are also too silent. Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee Wednesday displayed his annoyance at 'silent' parliamentarians who had not spoken a word in the Lok Sabha during their five-year tenure.

February 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Few MPs attended the Lok Sabha Friday when the house discussed the government's interim budget for 2009-10. Law Minister Hansraj Bharadwaj and Minister of State for Finance Pawan Kumar Bansal were the only ministers at 4 p.m.

February 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee had to Monday interrupt the interim budget presentation by Minister for External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee as an MP fell ill. A doctor was called in and the Lok Sabha was adjourned for 10 minutes.

February 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha was adjourned Friday over two hours ahead of the scheduled time due to lack of quorum. According to the list of business, the house should meet till 6 p.m.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - The Rajya Sabha was Tuesday adjourned sine die after opposition MPs continued to stall proceedings over the remarks by Minority Affairs Minister A.R. Antulay questioning the circumstances of the death of Maharashtra police officer Hemant Karkare in the Nov 26 Mumbai terror attacks and the insurance bill.