While raking up the death issue, the members from Congress and Left forced premature adjournment of Lok Sabha for the day as they created ruckus by alleging that "ill-treatment" was meted out to Ahamed's family members at the government hospital after he was admitted there on January 31.
78-year-old Ahamed collapsed during President's Address to joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on January 31. He was declared dead in the wee hours of next day, hours before presentation of the Budget.
In the Lok Sabha, the Opposition members trooped into the Well, raising slogans over Ahamed's death and disrupting the proceedings. The uproar led to two adjournments before the final for the day at around 1.10 pm.
"The body was kept there in inhuman way. His daughter and son-in-law too were not allowed to meet for six-seven hours...This all shows that how the government shrouded such big incident to ensure the Budget is presented," said Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge.
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"We demand the government should issue a statement in this regard and a Parliamentary Committee be formed to probe it. Whoever is responsible, be it doctors, government officials, the ministry, the responsibility should be fixed."
RSP's N K Premachandran and Congress' K C Venugopal, both members of the Lok Sabha, gave adjournment motions related to the issue, demanding a probe.
Scindia, while raising questions over the entire episode, said, "Daal mein jaroor kuchh kala hai aur is liye hum jaanch ki maang kar rahe hai (There's certainly something fishy and that is why we are demanding a probe)."
Premachandran said, "Madam Sonia Gandhi had to wait for two hours in the hospital and they were pointing out protocols."
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said the Congress was information that Ahamed had passed away "much earlier" than it was formally declared, but the government wanted to keep the body in hospital until the Budget was presented.
Raising the Ahamed issue during Zero Hour, Yechury said
there are various allegations and various information that "I have got that some doctors say he was declared dead when he was taken to the hospital".
"I want a proper and thorough investigation into the manner in which death of one of our senior colleagues of Parliament and former Minister E Ahamed was handled and the way in which news of his death was sought to be supressed," the CPI(M) leader said.
"There has been interference, that's what I hear, from the highest authorities in the country from the PMO and this is something which cannot be accepted. This is shameful.
"I want this issue to be thoroughly investigated. I wish my information is not correct what I heard. But if it is correct, then they must be made accountable and action must be taken against those who have behaved in this manner," Yechury said.