New Delhi: The notices for no-confidence motion could not be taken up in the Lok Sabha even on friday as uproar over various issues led to a wash out of proceedings for the fifth consecutive working day.
The House saw two adjournments till 1 PM before being adjourned for the day without transacting any substantive business.
Disruptions started as soon as the House met for the day with members raising various issues ranging from Telangana to UPSC exams. The uproar led to the adjournment of the House till noon.
Similar scenes were witnessed when it re-assembled, forcing another adjournment. The situation was no different when the House met again at 1 PM.
As slogan-shouting continued, Speaker Meira Kumar kept pleading with agitating members to restore order so that the fate of three notices for no-confidence motion could be decided.
She said she wanted to ascertain whether leave of the House could be granted for consideration of the three notices given by six Congress members from Seemandhra region as also TDP and YSR Congress.
Kumar said she could take up the matter related to the notices only if the House is in order.
However, as several members continued with the slogan-shouting in the Well, she said the matter could not be taken up because of the din and adjourned the House for the day.
The total number of members who have signed the respective notices for no-confidence is 13 while for consideration of a notice, there is a mandatory requirement of support from 55 members.
The issue of separate Telangana dominated the uproar with members of TDP and YSR Congress trooping into the Well and raising slogans opposing division of Andhra Pradesh. For some time, YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy was also in the Well.
Congress members from Seemandhra region supported them by joining in slogan-shouting from their seats.
The Speaker repeatedly appealed for order to enable her to ascertain the views of members on the the three notices on no-confidence motion given by six Congress MPs besides by TDP and YSR Congress.
SP members were also in the Well raising slogans to demand granting of reservation to 17 OBCs. The effort for inclusion of these castes in the Scheduled Castes list was initiated way back in 2005, when the then SP government headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav had amended the concerned Act.
The castes include Banjara, Kahar, Kashyap, Kewat, Nishad, Bind, Bhar, Prajapati, Rajbhar, Batham, Gaur, Tura, Majhi, Mallah, Kumhar, Dheemar and Machhua.
In the din, Coal Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal introduced a bill to provide for the establishment of Coal Regulatory Authority to regulate and conserve resources in the coal sector.
The Speaker also called Minister of State for Home Mulapally Ramachandran to take the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2013 for consideration and passage. But the Minister could not be heard and Kumar adjourned the House for till 1 PM.
