Speaker C P Singh found only eight ministers sitting in the House when he arrived at 11:00 am.
At 3:50 pm all the twelve ministers were seen in the House for the first time in the day as also a couple of ruling members and the lone CPI ML-Liberation) MLA Vinod Kumar Singh.
The Speaker adjourned the House for the day after CPI (ML-Liberation) MLA urged him not to take up bills in the absence of so many legislators.
Later he told reporters that ruling and opposition legislators did attend the House to protest the non-release of MLA local area development funds by government officials.
Yesterday, senior BJP MLA Raghuvar Das had drawn the speaker's attention to the flouting of his August 6 direction to the government to release the funds within a month and had alleged that government officials were releasing it to selected districts while ignoring the rest.
Chief Minister Arjun Munda had explained that relaxation in releasing the funds could lead to financial irregularities, while his deputy Hemant Soren said that the problem existed two years ago also.
The speaker had chided Munda and Soren saying "Don