The two-phase budget session of parliament concluded today as scheduled, leaving a lot many pieces of legislation hanging because of repeated disruptions and adjournments for days together.

The government wanted to get the session extended in to next week, but the business advisory committees of the two houses felt the climate of disruptions would continue and it would be better to put off pending bills for the longer monsoon session in July-August.

Parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Kumar Bansal is sad that while parliament is for legislating the laws, some parties just did not allow the houses to function – the government then resorted to passing some 10 bills in the Lok Sabha without any discussion. The bills were passed even as agitated members continued pandemonium in the house well which is not a good practice, Bansal admitted while pointing out that there was no option but to go on vacation as scheduled.

Even on Thursday, both the houses witnessed adjournments. Speaker Meira Kumar cancelled the lunch break in view of the heavy agenda but she had to adjourn the house five minutes later because of the noisy scenes over demands to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the 2G spectrum allocation scam that has caused an alleged loss of Rs 22,000 crore to the exchequer.