Sonia, the teacher, scolds indisciplined Tharoor

New Delhi: If you did not spot Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in Parliament today, it's probably because he is licking his wounds in private. The MP from Thiruvananthapuram earned a sharp rap on the knuckles from Congress president Sonia Gandhi after his comments at a party meeting went public.

Tharoor had reportedly said yesterday he was not in favour of disrupting Parliament over the party's demand for the resignations of Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje over their links to Lalit Modi. A report says that an angry Sonia Gandhi told Tharoor in the presence of other partymen, "You always do this, it's become a habit with you."

Even as embarrassed Congress MPs looked on, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi tried some damage control by changing the subject and ushered the MPs out of the room.

Tharoor has been the Congress cross hairs earlier as well for being more outspoken than most MPs. As MoS External Affairs when the UPA government was in power in 2009, Tharoor ran into trouble for posting a message on Twitter, in which he said he would travel cattle class in solidarity with all our holy cows.

Both houses of Parliament were adjourned for the day. The cost of running each day of Parliament is estimated at Rs 6 crore. That's two days of zero business, which is Rs 12 crore.

'Sau Khoon Maaf for Sushma: Mulayam

SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said that for Sushma Swaraj "sau khoon maaf (100 murders would be forgiven)."

Mulayam, one of the five Samajwadi Party MPs in the Lok Sabha, was asked to comment on the demand by Congress and other opposition parties that Ms Swaraj must resign for Parliament to run.

"You know what my party things about women. It is sau khoon maaf for women," Yadav said.

"Why are all of you after one woman?" he asked reporters.