Monday, August 7 2006 16:34 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Both houses of parliament were adjourned Monday as opposition members demanded an inquiry into how the Pathak committee report, indicting former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh in the Iraq oil-for-food scandal, was leaked to the media. As soon as the Rajya Sabha assembled, chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat made an obituary reference to former Orissa chief minister Nandini Satapathy who died Friday.

When he called for the first question, BJP members got up and started shouting slogans like 'Tell us who the mole is'.

With his repeated pleas to restore order being ignored, Shekhawat adjourned the house till noon.

In the Lok Sabha BJP leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra had given a notice of a privilege motion this morning on the alleged leakage of the report.

As soon as they assembled, BJP leaders came down to the well of the house and shouted slogans like Congress ka Lafda, Natwar ne Pakda (Congress tangle, Natwar unravelled) and PM apologise.

The sloganeering went on for as long as half an hour and the House was adjourned till 11.45 a.m.

The government will table the Action Taken Report (ATR) on the Pathak inquiry report later Monday.