Monday, May 9 2005 14:13 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: The allegations by a senior IAS officer against two Election Commissioners over countermanding of Chapra Lok Sabha polls in Bihar rocked Parliament today (May 9, 2005) as an unrelenting Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) pressed for an immediate debate leading to abrupt adjournment of the Lok Sabha shortly before the lunch recess.

RJD members supported by their Congress colleagues in both Houses raised the issue during Zero Hour waving a piece of paper purported to have been written by the senior IAS officer L V Saptarishi to Law Minister H R Bhardwaj and wanted to know what action was being taken by the Government on it.

As Speaker Somnath Chatterjee in Lok Sabha and Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat in Rajya Sabha repeatedly maintained that they would not allow the issue concerning Constitutional authorities to be raised without proper notice, the RJD members were on their feet and vociferously demanded that Government should immediately come up with a response on the letter.