Opposition’s ‘we want LPG’ protest disrupts Lok Sabha

Opposition parties connected Friday (March 13, 2026) protested inside, and outside, the Lok Sabha implicit the LPG ‘crisis’, starring to repeated adjournments.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned astir aft proceedings began astatine 11 a.m. arsenic the Opposition raised slogans implicit the alleged shortage of cooking state cylinders. When the House reassembled astatine noon, Opposition members trooped to the good and protested against the authorities and the summation successful the terms of LPG amid the ongoing West Asia conflict.

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After the laying of papers, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju criticised the Congress for the protests and targeted Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi. He said the Congress enactment was refusing to recognize the pulse of the radical and warned that the nationalist would “punish” the enactment if it continued to behave successful specified a manner.

“Their person [Mr. Gandhi] is refusing to change. Now the members are besides behaving similar him. Their person is indulging successful play connected Parliament premises by holding sheet and glass. They deliberation that by doing specified theatrics they volition beryllium capable to gully the attraction of the people. But radical cognize them precise well, that is wherefore they person not been capable to travel to power,” Mr. Rijiju said.

Expressing disappointment implicit the behaviour of the Congress, the Minister said nary 1 successful the enactment could marque Mr. Gandhi “see logic”. “Still determination is clip to change, different the radical of the state volition punish you severely,” helium added.

As Opposition members continued to protest, the Chair adjourned the proceedings till 2 p.m. When the Lok Sabha reconvened, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman replied to the earlier statement connected the supplementary request for grants amid changeless sloganeering by Opposition members who kept shouting, “we privation LPG”.

Outside Parliament, respective Opposition MPs protested with cutouts of LPG cylinders, demanding that the Centre contiguous a wide roadmap to code the ‘shortage’ and rising prices.

Congress person K. C. Venugopal, who joined the protests, aboriginal said connected X, “The LPG situation is mounting time by day, and the Centre is taking nary factual steps to code this, beyond bare platitudes. Joined the protestation of Opposition MPs demanding a wide roadmap for the Centre to code the wide panic among the radical astir this LPG shortage.”