New Delhi: Miffed at the continuous ruckus and non functioning of proceedings, the Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu Wednesday ordered members of AIDMK and DMK to leave the House for the day when they continued to protest without a pause in the Well over the Cauvery issue.
The House had to be adjourned twice in the afternoon amid din over the issue and finally for the day, minutes after it reassembled at 3 pm.
The protest by these members prompted Naidu to invoke Rule 255, asking over a dozen members of both parties from Tamil Nadu to leave the House for the day. Rule 255 provides that the Chairman may direct any member whose conduct, in his opinion, is grossly disorderly to withdraw immediately from the council.
It says any member so ordered to withdraw shall do so forthwith and shall absent himself during the reminder of the day’s meeting.
The AIADMK members had trooped into the Well as soon as the House resumed in the afternoon and were continuously shouting slogans regarding the Cauvery issue.
