NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha was adjourned briefly on Friday amid protests by Trinamool Congress over detention of some of its MPs in Assam ’s Silchar when they were on a fact-finding mission on the National Register of Citizens.

As soon as the House took up question hour, Saugata Roy said he had moved a notice for breach of privilege against the Assam home secretary and others for detaining the MPs. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan asked Roy to raise the issue after question hour. However, TMC members rushed to the well raising slogans against the BJP governments in Assam and at the Centre and demanded a reply from the Prime Minister.

Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge supported the TMC and said it was important to note that MPs were detained when the Parliament session was on. The Speaker said what the TMC members were doing was “not proper”.

