While Rajya Sabha was adjourned briefly for five minutes, heated exchanges between angry Left members and the BJP forced Lok Sabha to adjourn twice.

The Upper House witnessed uproarious scenes during the Zero Hour after Brinda Karat (CPM) charged BJP leaders in Delhi with provoking and inciting their workers to attack Communists all over the country.

“This is the kind of politics of violence and intolerance the BJP leaders are practising,” she said, triggering spontaneous outburst from saffron party members. Amidst shouts of “shame, shame” from the UPA benches, Ms Karat said on Monday some BJP and RSS workers made an attempt to damage a building in Hyderabad and tried to burn the portrait of Sundaraiah, one of the greatest freedom fighters. However, hitting back at Ms Karat, BJP’s M Venkaiah Naidu cited the violence in Nandigram to silence their Left opponents.

With members belonging to Left and BJP rushing towards the well, noisy scenes continued and the House was adjourned. When the House reassembled, the Chair took up the next item listed for Zero Hour and observed that if members wanted further discussion, they could give a fresh notice.

In Lok Sabha, Speaker Somnath Chatterjee had rejected an earlier notice given by the CPM members for suspension of the Question Hour to discuss the issue.

Raising the issue in Zero Hour, CPM MP Basudeb Acharia pointed out that after most political parties condemned Sunday’s attack on his party headquarters here, there have been more attacks in Bangalore, Dehradun and Kerala “by RSS-BJP”. As Mr Acharia spoke, BJP members were up on their feet asking the Speaker not to allow discussion on the issue as it was a “state matter”.

Heated exchanges continued even after the Speaker ruled that the issue was indeed related to a state matter and thus could not be discussed in Parliament.