There were similar scenes in the Rajya Sabha with BSP's Satish Mishra raising the issue. Other parties joined him and following an uproar the upper house was also adjourned till 12 noon.

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi has demanded a separate Bundelkhand authority to spur development in the backward region.

Last Tuesday, he had led a delegation of MPs from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and demanded a special package for Bundelkhand.

'Legislators and leaders from Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi met the prime minister. We have demanded a separate development authority for Bundelkhand region,' Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh told reporters last week.

The Bundelkhand region comprises Datia, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Panna, Damoh and Sagar districts of Madhya Pradesh and Jhansi, Lalitpur, Mahoba, Banda and Fatehpur districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Gandhi had visited the region last year and termed it on the verge of collapse.