Lok Sabha adjourned till Aug 20

New Delhi, Aug 17: The Lok Sabha was today adjourned for the day for want of quorum.

After the House re-assembled at 1600 hrs, Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Achary waited for five minutes to get quorum. But when this did not happen, he declared the House adjourned till Monday.

''The Speaker has directed me that the House cannot function unless there is quorum. Now I find that the quorum is not there. The House stands adjourned till 1100 hrs on Monday,'' he said.

The House was adjourned till 1600 hrs for the same reason after it assembled at 1530 hrs.

There were two earlier adjournments over NDA Convenor George Fernandes' reported derogatary remarks against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh relating to the Indo-US nuclear deal.

UNI