House adjourned over Tamil Nadu violence

new delhi: alleged police excesses at a dmk rally in chennai rocked parliament on monday forcing adjournment of both houses for the day amid vociferous demand for dismissal of jayalalithaa government in tamil nadu by agitated dmk members. related stories shortly after both the houses assembled for the day, dmk members stormed the well waving newspapers carrying photographs of the rally violence.they continued their action after the two houses reassembled following initial adjournment. one of the injured dmk member, v vetriselvan, removed his shirt in the lok sabha and showed injury marks reportedly sustained by him in the police action. he was one of the two lok sabha members injured during the incident. every time the dmk members rushed to the well, aiadmk members also moved in to counter them. aiadmk members rejected the dmk's charge saying it was the dmk workers who attacked the police. both sides displayed newspapers containing the violence reports. in the rajya sabha, prime minister atal bihari vajpayee, who was in the house, could not give his scheduled reply to the debate on the agra summit as chairman krishan kant adjourned the proceedings till tuesday when dmk members charged to the well after it reassembled following an hour-long adjournment. as soon as the lok sabha reassembled at 2 pm, dmk members noisily rushed to the well and kept on shouting "we want justice" and the aiadmk government be sacked. dmk members went up to the speaker's podium and made repeated attempts to disrupt the proceedings even as the deputy speaker p m sayeed, who was in the chair, tried to pacify them. in the midst of the pandemonium, papers were laid on the table. samata party member raghunath jha also joined the dmk members in the well supporting their cause. finding the members unrelenting, sayeed adjourned the house till tuesday.