India, Feb. 5 -- In what was the first such instance since 2004, the Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a resolution thanking President Droupadi Murmu for her address to a joint sitting of Parliament during the Budget Session without the Prime Minister's reply to her speech.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was expected to reply to the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address on Wednesday. However, after repeated disruptions and sloganeering by opposition members, the Speaker adjourned the Lok Sabha. Follow live updates here.

On Thursday, the Lok Sabha sitting, which began at 11 am, was adjourned soon after INDIA bloc MPs raised slogans targeting PM Modi and the Centre. Opposition MPs raised the issue of the alleged denial of the right to spea...