Rajya Sabha Adjourned Amid Uproar Over 'Lungiwala' Slur Against Brittas

In India, important leaders meet in Parliament to make rules for the country.

One of its houses, the Rajya Sabha, is like a big classroom where the leaders talk.

On Monday, a leader named John Brittas was speaking about a new tax rule.

He said that another leader, Sushmita Dev, kept calling him a rude name, 'lungiwala,' which hurt his feelings.

So John Brittas complained to the person in charge, Chairman Radhakrishnan, and asked for a special review called a privilege motion.

Sushmita Dev said she had not made rude comments about anyone's clothes and wanted to explain her side too.

Many other leaders started shouting as well, and some wanted to talk about donations said to have been stolen from a temple.

The Chairman said everyone should take a break until 2 o'clock and invited the leaders to his office to sort things out.

The meeting stopped for a while so everyone could calm down and talk about the problem later.