A plane carrying 33 people from Gujarat, who were among 104 Indians deported from the US for illegal immigration, landed at Ahmedabad airport on Thursday morning

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned till noon on Thursday following uproar over the issue of deportation of illegal Indian immigrants from the United States.

As soon as both the Houses assembled, the opposition members, mostly Congress MPs, were on their feet trying to raise the issue.

Rajya Sabha

MPs from the Congress, CPI, TMC, AAP and CPM gave notices under Rule 267, that sought to set aside listed business of the day to take up discussion on the issue being raised through them, but the chair rejected all of them.

MPs then stood in their places and raised the issue. The MPs said the US had deported the Indian immigrants in a military plane in the most inhuman manner and they are not being allowed to raise the issue in the House.

Deputy Chairman Harivansh, who was in the chair, first ordered that the utterances of the opposition MPs will not go on record and then adjourned the proceedings till  noon when they persisted with their demand.

Those who gave notices under Rule 267 included CPI’s Santosh Kumar P, TMC’s Sanket Gokhale, CPM’s V Sivadasan and Congress leaders Anil Kumar Yadav, Shaktisingh Gohil, Pramod Tiwari, Renuka Chaudhary and Ashok Singh.

Lok Sabha

Speaker Om Birla tried to pacify the agitating members by saying the government has taken note of their concerns seriously.

“It is a matter of foreign policy. The foreign country also has its own rules and regulations. You can raise your issues at noon and allow the Question Hour to run smoothly,” he said.

However, the protesting members ignored the Speaker’s pleas and continued the protests following which Birla adjourned the House till noon.

A US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, the first such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump government as part of a crackdown against illegal immigrants.

Of them, 33 each are from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.