The Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice in the morning session on March 22 as Opposition parties, including the Congress and TMC, voiced their protest against the increase in the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas LPG.
With slogan shouting Opposition MPs trooping into the well of the House, proceedings were first adjourned till 12 noon and then till post-lunch.
Petrol and diesel prices were on March 22 hiked by 80 paise a litre each while domestic cooking gas LPG rates were increased by ₹50 per cylinder as state oil firms ended an over four-and-a-half month election-related hiatus in rate revision, fanning inflation fears.
