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LS adjourned again

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI MAY 3. The Lok Sabha had to be adjourned yet again on the Gujarat issue.

Trouble erupted early during zero hour, as Ramjilal Suman (SP) raised the issue of an advertisement inserted by the State Government on Gujarat day on Wednesday.

Quoting from the advertisement, Mr. Suman said the State Government had misquoted Mahatma Gandhi as favouring violence. The BJP members were up in arms vehemently protesting the Gujarat issue being raised once again. Madanlal Khurana, Kirti Azad and V.K. Malhotra kept remonstrating with the Deputy Speaker for allowing the SP member to raise the Gujarat issue once again.

Mr. Khurana said that the issue had been discussed for 16 hours in the House while the CNG issue for which he had been giving notice for the last five days was not allowed to be raised. The deputy Speaker, P.M. Sayeed's assurance that all those who had given notice would be allowed to raise their issues, did not satisfy the BJP members who appeared determined against Gujarat being discussed in the House.

Mr. Kirti Azad (BJP) said he wanted to raise the issue of Dalits being targeted in Bihar and demanded that he be given priority. With the chair reluctant to oblige, Mr. Azad got increasingly angry .

Mr. Azad said he wanted the issued to be discussed under Rule 184, under which the communal violence in Gujarat was discussed.

The RJD members protested the charge and demanded that the notice be rejected.

Mr. Azad alleged that 30,000 Dalits had been killed in Bihar during the 11-year rule of the RJD and the crime graph had gone up sharply

The Deputy Speaker reprimanded Mr. Azad when he wanted to know why can't Bihar's law and order situation could be discussed in the House like in the case of communal violence in Gujarat.' ``Don't equate Gujarat with Bihar,'' said Mr. Sayeed.

The aggressive and unrelenting attitude of the treasury benches provoked the former Prime Minister, Chandrashekar, to remark that it appeared that the Government wants the House to be run on its own terms and suggested that the chair adjourn the House and let the Government decide how it wants to run the House. Exasperated by the continuous arguments, Mr. Sayeed adjourned the House for an hour, ahead of the scheduled lunch break.

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