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"Let us abolish this House. What is the need of Parliament." These observations were made by Speaker Somnath Chatterjee in the Lok Sabha Wednesday, exasperated over the demands for suspending the Question Hour as the House met for the day.
As Rashtriya Janata Dal members wanted to raise the issue of 'jungle raj' in Bihar in the wake of the Bhagalpur incident and Samajwadi Party members stormed the well over the Agra violence, Speaker said members want to turn every hour into "Zero Hour", which he could not allow.
Later after Question Hour, Republican Party of India member Ramdas Athavale as also RJD member Ram Kripal Yadav were victims of the chair's ire as Chatterjee pulled up Athavale for repeated interruptions and Yadav for "deliberate defiance". At one point, a quick job by Parliamentary Affairs Minister P R Dasmunsi to calm the members helped as Chatterjee was about to 'name' them.
"Don't be funny. Don't behave funny", he told Athavale.