New Delhi, February 13 The intense first part of the Budget session, which saw heated debates over the India-US interim trade deal and the unpublished memoir of former army chief M M Naravane, concluded on Friday, and the House will now reconvene on March 9.
The three-week recess period will allow standing committees to examine the allocations made to various central ministries in the Union Budget.
Earlier in the day, the House was adjourned for one hour after opposition members raised slogans demanding the resignation of Union Minister Hardeep Puri. The opposition members were also protesting against the India-US interim trade agreement.
The first part of the Budget Session began on January 28 with the address of President Droupadi Murmu to a joint sitting of the two Houses.
The Lok Sabha witnessed dramatic scenes and repeated adjournments from February 2 afternoon after the Chair disallowed Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi to quote excerpts from the memoir of Naravane relating to the 2020 India-China conflict.
The House witnessed noisy protests and dramatic scenes in the coming days, leading to the suspension of seven Congress and one CPI-M member from the House for the remainder part of the Budget session for unruly behaviour, including climbing on tables of officials and throwing torn papers at the Chair.
