The House was first adjourned during Question Hour for 50 minutes till noon after Trinamool Congress members trooped into the Well raising slogans and creating a pandemonium over the arrest of its MPs.
Some TDP members were also seen raising banners seeking special status for Andhra Pradesh.
"I will allow you to raise the issue during Zero Hour ...Not during Quesion Hour...I am warning you," Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said amid noisy scenes before adjourning the House.
At 1300 hours, similar scenes were witnessed when House reassembled. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan ordered taking up of the discussion on the President's address to the joint sitting of Parliament, with Union Minister Mahesh Sharma seeking to initiate the debate.
But several opposition members, including Revolutionary Socialist Party's N K Premachandran, Congress MP KC Venugopal and CPI-M's P Karunakaran, trooped into the Well.
"The Centre is targetting our MPs by misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation. CBI is a caged parrot. It is using the CBI for political purpose," TMC's deputy leader Saugata Roy said, adding that besides Bandopadhyay, another MP Tapas Paul too was arrested by the probe agency.
As the ruckus continued and the slogan-shouting became boisterous, the Speaker adjourned the House for the day till Monday barely ten minutes after it had resumed.
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