India's parliament erupts in chaos, pepper spray used


An unidentified member of India's Parliament, holding a handkerchief to his face after being affected by pepper spray, leaves Parliament after protests inside the building in New Delhi on February 13, 2014. -AFP

NEW DELHI: India's parliament erupted in chaos on Thursday over a bill to create a new state, with angry MPs coming to blows, pulling out a microphone and pepper spraying the chamber, reports said.

Waving banners and shouting slogans, lawmakers disrupted the lower house of parliament as the Congress-led government introduced the contentious bill to create the new state called Telangana from an area in the existing state of Andhra Pradesh.

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