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Parliament adjourned

By Our New Delhi Bureau

NEW DELHI, AUG. 24. Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned today as the Opposition and the ruling benches traded charges on a host of controversies including the "tainted" Ministers, the arrest warrant against the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, and reports of a Rs. 300 crore scam involving the Bharatiya Janata Party president, Venkaiah Naidu.

In the Lok Sabha the first salvo was fired by the Rashtriya Janata Dal members who created a furore over the higher allotment of funds from the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana to Andhra Pradesh during Mr. Naidu's tenure as the Rural Development Minister. Waving copies of a newspaper report, they raised slogans even as the Opposition countered it with a chorus against "tainted" Ministers.

With neither side willing to relent, the House was adjourned for half-an-hour. When the Lok Sabha met again at 11.30 a.m., it was adjourned for the day within minutes as both sides stuck to their guns. In the Rajya Sabha, the Chair called the Petroleum Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar, to begin Question Hour. Peeved at his decision to have a quotation of the RSS ideologue, V. D. Savarkar, removed from the `Swatantraya Jyot' in Port Blair's Cellular Jail, BJP and Shiv Sena members moved into the well of the House shouting slogans against Mr. Aiyar.

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