The Lok Sabha was adjourned until April 2, within the first hour of proceedings on Wednesday. The Lower House has not conducted any business over the past two weeks of the Budget Session.

The Lok Sabha was first adjourned till noon after noisy protests by members of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam demanding that a board to manage the Cauvery water dispute be set up. They trooped into the well of the House with placards and slogans.

Members of the Telugu Desam Party, demanding special status for Andhra Pradesh, remained standing, PTI reported. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said that if the disruptions continued, she may have to end the Budget Session ahead of schedule. The Budget Session is scheduled to end on April 6.

Mahajan said she was duty-bound to bring the no-confidence motions against the government, but could not do so until there is order in the House. She said the protesting members were wasting the time of the House.

In the Rajya Sabha, members reconvened to bid farewell to its 58 retiring members. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Opposition leader Ghulam Nabi Azad thanked them for their service. “All of the outgoing parliamentarians have tried to contribute to the best of their capacity for the bright future of this country, and the country will not forget them,” Modi said, according to ANI.

Members of the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) urged the speaker to allow Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge to speak, but their voices were drowned out by the AIADMK members’ protest.

Mahajan had reportedly met leaders of Opposition parties after Tuesday’s adjournment in order to resolve the logjam. The Congress had on Tuesday called the protests by the AIADMK “government-sponsored”, and said the ruling party was instigating them to disrupt the House so that the no-confidence motion against the government is not taken up.

Neither House of Parliament has been productive in the second half of the Budget Session so far mainly because of protests by several Opposition parties with different demands. The Telugu Desam Party and YSR Congress are demanding special category category status for Andhra Pradesh. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi wants more job quotas in Telangana, and the AIADMK wants the Centre to set up a board to manage the Cauvery water dispute.