The second part of the Budget Session of Parliament came to a sudden end today after a virtual washout because of relentless opposition demands for the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ministers Ashwani Kumar and P K Bansal.
The three-week second phase, which began on April 22, was adjourned sine die, after half of Parliament's time was wasted due to disruptions caused by the opposition on various issues.
The session was scheduled to end two days later.
During this part of the session, the Lok Sabha met for 94 hours and 42 minutes but lost 92 hours and 40 minutes. The Rajya Sabha lost over 82 hours while it sat for about equal time.
Of the 32 sittings, Question Hour could not be taken up on 21 days.
The time was lost due to disruptions on several issues like vetting of CBI report on coal blocks allocation, leakage of JPC report, plight of ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka and demands for resignation of Railways Minister P K Bansal in connection with bribery charges against his nephew.
With the abrupt end of the session, key legislations like the Food Security Bill, the Land Acquisition Bill and land boundary agreement with Bangladesh could not be passed.
The only business that was transacted was the passage of the Finance Bill marking the completion of the Budgetary exercise and the Railway Budget without any discussion after walkout by the Opposition.
