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　　Both the Houses of Parliament -- the Lok Sabha (the Lower House) and the Rajya Sabha (the Upper House) had to be adjourned by Speaker Meira Kumar and Chairman Hamid Ansari, also the Indian Vice⁴ President, after the BJP refused to relent over the issue of Prime Minister's resignation for his alleged⁵ role in the allocation of coal blocks to private companies when he held the portfolio⁶ of the Coal Ministry⁷.

　　The uproar came as a parliamentary panel, headed by a Congress Member of Parliament, tabled its report on the coal scam, which the BJP claimed was aimed at hushing up the scam and giving a clean chit to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government.

　　The BJP also demanded the sacking of the Law Minister Ashwani Kumar over his alleged interference in the preparation of the probe report by the country's Central Bureau of Investigation⁸ for submission⁹ to Supreme¹⁰ Court on the coal scam. They were later joined by other opposition parties in both Houses of Parliament.

　　"It is not acceptable that the government suppresses the truth. We demand that the Prime Minister resigns and the Law Minister should be sacked," BJP's deputy leader of Upper House Ravi Shankar Prasad said in Rajya Sabha.

　　However, the government said the demand for the Prime Minister' s resignation was baseless. "There is no basis to BJP's demand for Prime Minister's resignation," Indian Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said.

　　The coal scam allegedly cost the country billions of rupees because it did not follow a transparent¹¹ bidding process when allocation of the coal blocks happened. The government denies any wrongdoing.

　　The Parliament, which reconvened its Budget Session this week, was adjourned Monday following uproar by the BJP over the recent gangrape of a five-year-old girl in the nationa capital.

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