A day after the CPM hinted that it might have to take action against its senior-most parliamentarian for not stepping down as the Speaker before the trust vote, Chatterjee admonished the communist MPs for repeatedly interrupting Finance Minister P Chidambaram when the latter was taking part in the debate on the confidence motion in the House.

The Speaker even cited the example of the BJP MPs to silence the Left Front’s parliamentarians. He asked the LF MPs to learn a lesson from the BJP members, who were “not disturbing”. “Please do not think that I am allowing all this. You will face the consequences,” he told the LF MPs. Chatterjee also chided N N Krishnadas, a CPM MP from Palakkad in Kerala, and told him that he should not think he was glorifying himself or his party by “this indiscipline”. “You at least are not behaving like a member of a disciplined party,” the Speaker told Krishnadas.
As soon as Chatterjee referred to discipline again, a visibly charged Krishnadas stood up and said angrily: “Yes. I am a disciplined party member. Yes, I am proud of that.” The other leftist MPs immediately intervened and persuaded him to take his seat. Chatterjee himself faces possible disciplinary actions by the CPM as he defied its stand that he must resign before the trust vote. Hours after he occupied the Speaker’s Chair on Monday, the party apparatchiks hinted that it might take action against him after the current LS session.

But as he returned to the Speaker’s Chair on Tuesday, Chatterjee did not show any sign of going soft on his comrades while cautioning the unruly MPs.

As the LS session resumed after the adjournment over cash-for-vote fiasco in the evening,  CPM MP from West Bengal, Md Selim was seen angrily making attempts to interrupt the proceedings. The Speaker did not miss this and sternly warned the MP: “Mr Salim, you are gesticulating towards the Chair.” He also once asked veteran CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta to take his seat when the latter stood up to demand that the House should take cognisance of the allegation by a BSP member that the UPA government was using the CBI to put pressure on Mayawati’s MPs in order to make them vote in favour of the confidence motion.