New Delhi, Aug 3 - The day in the Lok Sabha started Monday with slogans against the government's plan to start a development authority for drought-hit Bundelkhand and ended on the same note with noisy protests by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MPs leading to the house being adjourned for the day.
In between the two adjournments on the Bundelkhand issue, the house was adjourned twice -- over the Samajwadi Party's allegations that Uttar Pradesh was not being given its due share of Reliance Industries' Krishna-Godavari gas and the Trinamool Congress raising the issue of killings in West Bengal.
The final adjournment of the day came when BSP members gathered near the speaker's podium against the government's move to set up a separate Bundelkhand development authority for the region that is spread across Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
When the house assembled at 3 p.m., Deputy Speaker Kariya Munda invited Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Basudeb Acharia to speak on the issue of price rise, but Trinamool Congress leaders from West Bengal protested and urged the chair to allow them to speak on the issue of killings in West Bengal.
Finally, Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyaya was invited to speak on the issue, but Left MPs protested and BSP members raised the Bundelkhand issue.