Lok Sabha adjourned amid continued uproar by Opposition

Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned on Tuesday, 22 July, amid continued uproar and protests by Opposition members, who persisted with their demands for urgent discussions on several contentious national issues.

Opposition parties forced the adjournment by raising slogans and waving placards against the ongoing voter roll revision in Bihar and calling for a discussion on Operation Sindoor.

Opposition members trooped to the Well of the Lok Sabha on the second day of the Monsoon session of Parliament demanding a roll back of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise initiated by the Election Commission in Bihar ahead of assembly polls scheduled for later this year.

When the House re-convened at 12 noon, BJP member Jagdambika Pal, who was in the chair, urged the floor leaders of the opposition parties to ask their members to return to their seats and allow the House to function.

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"The government is ready to discuss any issue which the Speaker allows as per the rules. I appeal to you to go back to your seats," Arjun Ram Meghwal, minister of state for parliamentary affairs, said.

Pal also urged opposition members not to show placards and instead give in writing their demands at the meetings of the Business Advisory Committee.

As ruckus continued, Pal adjourned proceedings till 2 pm.

Earlier, when the House met at 11 am, Opposition MPs, including Congress, were on their feet, demanding discussion on the revision of electoral rolls in Bihar and Operation Sindoor.

Agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan appealed to the Opposition members to go back to their seats so that the House can take up questions related to farmers during the designated time of Question Hour.

Speaker Om Birla intervened and told the Opposition MPs that sloganeering and showing placards lowered the dignity of the House. He later adjourned the House till 12 noon.

The House could not function on the first day of the session on Monday due to repeated adjournments following opposition protests over the demand of discussion on Operation Sindoor.

Under Operation Sindoor, armed forces attacked Pakistani terror sites and defence installations for three days beginning 7 May following the Pahalgam terror attack on 22 April in which 26 people were killed.