New Delhi: The Parliament both houses forcing adjournment of proceedings on Monday due to the protests of opposition parties on the issue of power tussle in Maharashtra. The Congress President Sonia Gandhi led protest in Parliament premises against the BJP move near the Gandhi statue in the Parliament premises. The protestors showed placards “Stop horse trading-Stop dirty politics”.  

   The Congress MP Rahul Gandhi set the tone for protests in the morning, when he refused to ask a supplementary question in during question hour in the Lok Sabha. Two Congress MPs Hibieden and T.N. Prathapam carrying a big black banner that read “Stop murder of Democracy” entered into the well of the house. The two Parliament members who staged protest in the well are suspended from the house for one day. Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Choudary alleged that women Parliamentarians of his party were manhandled in the Lok Sabha when they were protesting in the well of the house. In Rajya Sabha the Congress and other opposition parties such left parties and DMK shouted anti- BJP slogans after the Chairman Venkaiah Naidu rejected their notices under Rule-267 seeking setting aside of the business to take up the political developments in Maharashtra forcing an adjournment.