India, March 17 -- Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has written to former Congress President and Rajya Sabha MP Sonia Gandhi, expressing concern over "chaos" inside Parliament and its premises by Opposition parties, particularly by her party's MPs.

"I strongly feel that Congress parliamentarians, led by the leader of the Opposition, have provided far too many disruptions inside Parliament and in its premises. Their dharnas and blockades outside Parliament are unprecedented. Parliament in recent times has witnessed an excess of slogan shouting, display of placards and name-calling," Gowda said in a two-page letter.

Describing it as an attitude of non-seriousness, he said it has assaulted his very idea of the construct of Parliament an...