MPs of BJP and AIADMK in Rajya Sabha shouted when home minister P Chidambaram replied on Haridwar stampede on Wednesday. They continued to shout even during supplemetaries were put But Chidambaram bravely in his loud voice replied. His two deputies Mudapalli ramachandran and Jitendra Singh stood up to support him. Protesting against a "misleading" reply by Chidambaram on custodial deaths, Bhahujan Samaj Party MPs walked out of Rajya Sabha. (See a PTI report below)

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When minister of state Jyodiraditya Scindia stood up in Rajya Sabha to answer a question on coopeartion sought from the US for manufacturing high-end products, Jairam Ramesh thumped desk.

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During question hour Smriti Irani, a BJP MP from Gujarat, invited culture minister Kumari Selja to visit the state to see the implementation
of government programmes there. Quickly, Kumari Selja replied that the MP should also visit other states to see herself how other states
were implementing the central government programmes.

PTI reports:

Chidambaram faces oppn ire in RS

Continuing its boycott of Home Minister P Chidambaram, opposition BJP and AIADMK on Wednesday created ruckus in Rajya Sabha whenever the minister rose to answer queries put to him during the Question Hour.

"Chidambaram istifa do (Chidambaram quit)," they shouted, demanding the Home Minister's resignation for his alleged role in irregularities in allotment of 2G telecom spectrum when he was the Finance Minister.

When he rose to reply to supplementaries on stampede at a Yagyna in Haridwar last month, BJP members were up on their feet shouting slogans against him.

R N Pany (BJP) rushed to the Well shouting slogan, "Bhrashtachar nahi chalega, istifa do (corruption will not be tolerated, submit resignation." He was, however, stopped by his party colleagues and was asked to take his seat.

Not satisfied with minister's reply, two BSP members including Naresh Agarwal staged a walk out. Agarwal had sought to know whether the government was proposing any law to release prisoners above the age of 70.

Unfazed by the protests, Chidambaram gave replies to all the supplementaries but he was barely audible.

Chairman Hamid Ansari said he was "perplexed" by the "effort of a section of the House to disturb the Question Hour" and asked if the House wanted to continue with the Question Hour.

Gyan Prakash Pilani (BJP) refused to ask a supplementary when called for saying he was "bound" by certain decisions of his party.

The opposition resorted to slogan-shouting when another question relating to rising crimes against minorities was put to Chidambaram. Similar scenes were witnessed when the next question on deaths in police and judicial custody came up.