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Abolish this House: Speaker

New Delhi: “Let us abolish this House. What is the need of Parliament,” observed Speaker Somnath Chatterjee in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. He was exasperated over the demands for suspending question hour as the House met for the day.

As Rashtriya Janata Dal members wanted to raise the issue of ‘Jungle Raj’ in Bihar in the wake of the Bhagalpur incident and SP members stormed the well over the Agra violence, the Speaker said members want to turn every hour into “zero hour,” which he could not allow.

Later after question hour, Republican Party of India member Ramdas Athavale as also RJD member Ram Kripal Yadav were victims of the Chair’s ire as Mr. Chatterjee pulled up Mr. Athavale for repeated interruptions and Mr. Yadav for “deliberate defiance.”

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi intervened to calm the members. — PTI

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