For the second consecutive day, both Houses of Parliament were adjourned early amid ruckus over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s remarks in London.

The BJP Government sought Gandhi’s apology over his comments again while the Opposition parties objected to the government. The two sides indulged in slogan-shouting against the other.

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In the Lok Sabha, Speaker Om Birla tried to take up the Question Hour and offered to give time to members to raise their issues. He had to repeatedly tell members not to show placards. The House sat for just a few minutes in the morning and again after an adjournment in the afternoon.

In the Rajya Sabha, after tributes to film makers who won the Oscar awards, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar rejected notices received from several members. He said the members wanted discussion on the Government’s failure to constitute a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe charges of fraud, corruption and financial mismanagement against the Adani Group of companies. Some other members wanted discussion on post-poll violence in Tripura.

Dhankhar said he would meet leaders of different parties in his chamber on the issues raised by Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge regarding Gandhi’s speech, and give a ruling thereafter.

Leader of the House Piyush Goyal, without naming Gandhi, said an Opposition leader had tarnished the image of the country and its democratic system by his speech in the UK. He said it was an insult to Indian Parliament. He said he had raised the issue yesterday also.

Goyal said Parliament comprises both Houses of Parliament and the President is part of the Indian Parliament.

He said the Constitutional provisions said the members of the House would have to deplore the Congress leader’s comments and ask him to come and apologise. Never in the past nine years microphone of any member was switched off, he said. All parties should deplore the Congress leader’s utterances.