Upset over continuous disruption of question hour by Rajya Sabha members, chairman Hamid Ansari is serious about shifting the timing of the question hour. Ansari will soon meet member of the rules committee to decide on the same.
Ansari said that if members found the question hour ‘irrevelant’, he would shift it.

He was reacting to the demand of the AIDMK to take up a discussion on the 2G spectrum issue, by setting aside the Question Hour on Wednesday.
“The Chair has watched with great distress constant disruption of Question Hour in this Session. If the Question Hour is that irrelevant, then the Chair exercises the right of invoking rule 38 and shifting the Question hour and I shall give a decision on this in the course of the day,” Ansari said.
This is the second time that an upset chairman has mentioned shifting of the question hour.

In March, Ansari had suggested three alternatives to maintain the inviolability of the question hour: (i) the sitting of the House should commence at 10.30 a.m., instead of 11.00 a.m., with Zero Hour submissions followed by the Question Hour from 11.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon. (ii) the House take up the Zero Hour submissions at the beginning, i.e. at 11.00 a.m., and the Question Hour be held from 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. (iii) Shift the Question Hour to post-lunch from 2 pm.