The WikiLeaks revelations tormented Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday when the Samajwadi Party and the RJD accused him of making utterances against national unity and sought his resignation for his reported comments that India would have progressed more had North India not been there.

The comments were attributed to Chidambaram in a US embassy cable, which he reportedly made during his interaction with US ambassador Timothy Roemer in 2009. SP and RJD members disrupted proceedings in the Lok Sabha for some time after party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav raised the matter and sought immediate action. Even the BJP and Left members demanded an apology from the Home Minister.

Congress member P C Chacko, who was in the chair, had to adjourn the Lok Sabha for an hour after the SP and RJD members refused to heed to pleas by parliamentary affairs minister Pawan Bansal to allow the house to function smoothly. He had sought to cool tempers by saying that the Wikileaks contents should not be trusted. "Let WikiLeaks not leak the country," he said.

When the House was reconvened, the SP and RJD members continued with their protest in the House.

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