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New Delhi, Dec 6 (TIWN) The proceedings of the Rajya Sabha on Monday was again adjourned till 2 p.m. amid the Opposition's cotinued ruckus over the Nagaland firing incident.
This was the second adjournment on Monday when the Opposition continued their demand to suspend the business of the House and a discussion on Saturday's firing incident when army personnel in the state's Mon district mistook 14 coal mine workers returning home in a pick-up van as insurgents and gunned them down. Soon after the Upper House reassembled at 12 p.m. after the first adjournment, Deputy Speaker Harivansh Narayan Singh initiated the Question Hour when the Opposition members started shouting slogans and some of them came into the well carrying placards. The Deputy Chairman urged the members that the Question Hour was the property of the House and it cannot be disrupted like this. He also appealed to all the agitating MPs to go back to their seats amid increasing protests and also urged them to let the Question Hour proceed smoothly. Meanwhile, in a response to a question, Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the Central government will make sure to increase the target of rural households under Ujjwala 2.0 which was introduced in August this year and it has helped lakhs of households during the pandemic.
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