NEW DELHI, March 3 -- THE Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Tuesday with hardly any legislative business being transacted for the second day even as the government agreed to the opposition parties' demand for a discussion on violence in Delhi. As the upper house re-assembled at 3 PM after two adjournments earlier in the day, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said it would appear strange if the Parliament did not discuss the incidents of violence in Delhi when the whole world was talking about it.

Referring to the incidents of violence which has claimed at least 44 lives so far, Azad said irrespective of religion, 90 per cent of those who lost their lives belonged to the age group of 24 to 35 years, which is a huge...