New Delhi: A procedural wrangle amid heated exchanges over tabling of a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report today (Feb 05, 2004) marred the proceedings in Lok Sabha on the last day of the extended winter session with Speaker Manohar Joshi reserving his ruling on the issue.

"I am reserving my ruling and will give it before the House is adjourned today," Joshi said after members from both sides clashed nearly for an hour.

At the moment he was not allowing tabling of the report as it was not listed in the day's agenda, the Speaker said while noting that why it was not listed needed to be investigated.

He observed there were conflicting versions with regard to unanimity on the report leading to "confusion".

While PAC chairman Buta Singh during his meeting with him maintained that the report was unanimously adopted, seven members of the Committee had written to him opposing the draft report, Joshi said adding BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) member Kirit Somaiya met him and raised objections to its presentation.

An agitated Congress chief whip, Priyaranajan Dasmunsi, charged the Government with attempting to protect "corrupt persons" and threatened to go public with contents of the report if it was not allowed to be presented.