RS adjourned till 1300 hrs on BJP privilege notice against PM

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New Delhi, May 17 (UNI) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 1300 hours after an incensed BJP insisted on raising a privilege issue against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for ''misleading'' Parliament on the Indo-US nuclear deal even as the Chair refused permission to raise the issue.

Soon after the Question Hour, when the Deputy Chairman was about to replace Rajya Sabha Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat in the Chair, BJP MP and former External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha reminded the Chair about his privilege notice against the Prime Minister and wanted to raise the issue.

The Chair said the admissibility of the notice was under consideration and hence the issue could not be raised.

When the permission was denied BJP backbenchers moved into the well of the House while the seniors including Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, Ms Sushma Swaraj and Mr Sinha themselves refused to take their seats insisting on raising the issue.

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