They kicked up a ruckus when Speaker Meira Kumar did not budge and all BJP MPs stood up. Kumar was forced to adjourn the house for nearly one and a half hours.

The Himachal Pradesh police have filed corruption cases against Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh. The complaint against him is for alleged misuse of official position and criminal misconduct when he was chief minister in 1989.

Buta Singh's son Sarabjot alias Sweety Singh was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation July 30 for allegedly accepting a bribe to help withdraw a case against a Nashik contractor under the law on prevention of atrocities on Scheduled Castes.