BJP veteran L.K. Advani, distraught over the continuous uproar in Parliament, said on Thursday that he was unhappy with what was happening and felt like resigning.
"I don't like what is happening. I want to resign," Advani told Trinamool Congress MP Idris Ali shortly after the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day without transacting any business.
Ali had called on Advani after the House was adjourned.
After the Lok Sabha was adjourned, when the MPs were still in the House, an agitated Advani told Union textiles minister Smriti Irani that he was very unhappy with what was happening.
Sensing Advani's angry mood, Irani called Rajnath Singh to talk him. As Rajnath tried to calm him down, the senior BJP leader told him that discussion should happen in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the last day of the Winter Session of Parliament.
Advani told Rajnath that the House should not adjourn sine die without a discussion. He said it would send a bad signal if the Lok Sabha adjourned without a discussion.
He also advised that the government should reach out to the Congress.
To Ali, who asked him how his health was, Advani said, "My health is fine. The Parliament, however, is not in good health."
The Lok Sabha was adjourned shortly after noon on Thursday, followimg angry exchanges between the government and the opposition with regard to discussion on demonetisation. The government hit back after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi claimed that he had information on personal corruption of PM Narendra Modi, saying the House should discuss the Agusta Westland case also in which there were allegations against the Congress' first family.
Advani had, earlier, expressed his unhappiness with the repeated adjournments, saying neither the Speaker nor the parliamentary affairs minister were ensuring that the Lok Sabha functioned.
