The issue, which stalled proceedings in Rajya Sabha since yesterday, was resolved after negotiations outside the House among the leaders of various parties, mediated by Chairman Hamid Ansari and Deputy Chairman P J Kurien.
After lunch, when the House re-assembled after repeated adjournments, Jaitley, who is also the Leader of the House, thanked the Chairman and Deputy Chairman for convening meetings of leaders to end the impasse.
"The comments which have been made in the course, I leave it to the Chair to go through it. The concerned Minister Mr Goyal has already expressed regret for what he had said," Jaitley said.
Earlier in the day, Goyal, Minister for Coal and Power for whom the opposition was gunning for making comment on Selja's remarks, had expressed regret but the Congress leader had refused to accept it.
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She had alleged that "this was also a form of the Gujarat model", an apparent attack on Narendra Modi.
Commenting on this, Goyal yesterday said it was "manufactured discrimination", leading to uproar because of which the House remained deadlocked for most part of the day.
When the House met for the day today, Congress members continued uproar, demanding apology by Goyal and forcing 30-minute adjournment.
After the House met for the day today at 11 AM and
remembered the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy on its 31st anniversary, Congress members created uproar. Slogan-shouting members trooped into the Well demanding apology from the minister.
"Mafi maango, mafi maango (express apology)," they shouted along with "Constitution ka apman bandh karo, bandh karo (stop insulting the Constitution)."
At this point, Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu suggested that House be adjourned for a while for a solution to be arrived at.
The Chairman said he will look into the verbatim record and will then take appropriate action.
After Goyal expressed regret, Ansari said order should be restored after the minister's statement.
However, as Congress members continued to protest, an agitated Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the attitude of Congress members made it clear that they do not want the House to function. "This is not right," he said.