With the opposition demanding the resignation of Sheila Dikshit after the CAG report on irregularities in CWG projects, government on Monday said it will respond only after the public accounts committee takes a view on the issue.

Law minister Salman Khurshid said the opposition "can target anyone they like" and for the government "the constitutional propriety... the constitutional requirement is that if a report comes from the CAG, it has to go to the PAC."

"The importance of the PAC cannot be undermined because somebody has in their wisdom taken this to be an important political stick to beat the government. We respect the PAC and we would want the PAC to locate it and we can only respond and react once the PAC has taken a view," he said.

Asked about the "sanctity" attached to the CAG report, the minister said, "CAG report is a CAG report and there is no cause to use words like sanctity or lack of it."

"It is a CAG report. We know the importance of CAG in our entire system. But we also know the limits which the CAG can go and that limit obviously examine not by the Government, but examine by the PAC.

"If the CAG report is acceptable to PAC, (it is) one thing. If it is not acceptable to the PAC, it is quite another thing. And what the PAC then points about the report or the material in the report, we have to wait for the PAC report in turn," he said.

No indictment of Delhi govt in CAG's main report: parl affairs minister

Government on Monday sought to pick holes in the CAG report on Commonwealth Games, saying there was no indictment of Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit in the main report, but only a line mentioned about her in the executive summary.

Talking to reporters soon after parliament was rocked on the issue, union minister Pawan Kumar Bansal said as a minister he should not be speaking on the CAG report, but at the same time "Chapter 22 of the main report has no indictment (of the CM). But how is she indicted in the executive summary? Executive summary has the crux of the main report. It is not in the main report, but only a line has been mentioned in the executive report. How is it. Who made the summary will reply. They are holding press conferences, they will reply not me. I have only brought forth the facts," he said referring to the press conference by the CAG on the Commonwelath Games last week.

The parliamentary affairs minister said opposition members were raising slogans "based on total misinterpretation and misreading of the facts."

"Though CAG report is not discussed in parliament, I am not making it an issue. If anyone has a cursory look at the executive summary as also the main report, one would find that in the main report there is no indictment whatever of the chief minister on which they were shouting here which is really not the forum," he said.

The minister said once the public accounts committee discusses the report, opposition will realise that the issue on which they disrupted proceedings, "was never an issue."

He said had they given a notice on it, a discussion could have taken place as per rules.

He said with the adjournment of both Houses for the day, the discussion on internal security could not take place today. "It may now not take place due to other important discussions lined up," he added.

Earlier report:

Parl adjourns for the day amid uproar over CAG's CWG report

With the CAG pointing fingers at Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit in the CWG mess, an aggressive opposition on Monday created a storm in parliament, disrupting its proceedings for the day by pressing for her resignation.

The opposition parties also gave notice for privilege motion against sports minister Ajay Maken, alleging that he had misled parliament by his statement on the Suresh Kalmadi's appointment as CWG organising committee chairman and wanted immediate discussion on the issue.

It was trouble from the word go in both the lok sabha and the rajya sabha when they met for the day, with the NDA seeking suspension of question hour and the Left parties giving notices for adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha on the CAG observations on the CWG issue.

Chanting 'Resign, Sheila Dikshit Resign', opposition NDA members stormed the well leading to the adjournment of both lok sabha and rajya sabha till noon. When the two houses met again, it was a similar story and the presiding officers adjourned the proceedings for the day.

In the lok sabha, Samajwadi Party members demanded dismissal of the Mayawati government in the wake of reports that Uttar Pradesh has the highest incidence of fake encounters. They trooped into the Well, shouting slogans and waving copies of news reports.

With speaker Meira Kumar taking up the question hour, NDA members began shouting slogans against the Delhi government and demanded Dikshit's resignation contending that the CAG had indicted her in the CWG issue.

Earlier report:

Parliament was adjourned for the day on Monday following uproar by members over CAG reports on alleged irregularities in the conduct of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) and adverse observations against the functioning of the Uttar Pradesh government.

As the lok sabha met for the day, SP members trooped into the well raising slogans against the Mayawati government and waving newspaper reports on CAG findings.

With speaker Meira Kumar taking up the question hour, NDA members began shouting slogans against the Delhi government and demanded resignation of chief minister Sheila Dikshit contending that the CAG had indicted her in the CWG issue.

Kumar continued with the question hour as members of the BJP, Shiv Sena and SP raised slogans in the well.

BSP members were seen shouting slogans and countering the SP member.

The speaker told BJP member Varun Gandhi to ask a supplementary.

As Gandhi stood up to ask his question, BJP member Bijoya Chakraborty signalled him against doing so.

As the ruckus continued, the speaker adjourned the proceedings till noon.

Similar scenes were witnessed in the rajya sabha where BJP members trooped into the well soon after it met for the day.