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The House had earlier witnessed similar scenes during Question Hour. Only one question and its supplementary queries were taken up in a session that lasted around five minutes, before continued sloganeering forced another adjournment, this time until noon.
Birla repeatedly stressed that members must be allowed to ask questions and that parliamentary proceedings should be respected, but his appeals failed to calm the House.
The unrest follows the suspension on Tuesday of eight opposition MPs — seven from the Congress and one from the CPI(M) — for the remainder of the Budget session over what was described as unruly conduct.
Tensions have run high since Monday afternoon, after Rahul Gandhi was prevented from quoting an article referring to an unpublished memoir by General Naravane, which reportedly touched on the 2020 India–China border tensions.
With PTI inputs