new delhi the muchawaited statement of finance minister pranab mukherjee in rajya sabha on the controversial aircelmaxis deal was deferred to the next session even as the opposition cried foul saying its worse fears have come true bjp member venkaiah naidu drew attention to the matter listed in the business for the last day of the session soon after question hour saying the house had been assured that the finance minister would make a statement and that it should be given priority there is a clear ploy a systematic plan to avoid the issue naidu said to this minister of state for parliamentary affairs rajiv shukla said the minister is attending to some other business in the lok sabha he will make the statement before the house adjourns this did not satisfy the opposition members who created uproar and sought the chairs intervention in support of its demand for a statement by the fm on the issue p j kurien who was in the chair said government has given an assurance what else you wanti cannot fix the timeyou cannot ask the minister to come at a particular timehe is also a human being when the house met after lunch it was adjourned abruptly when dmk members created a ruckus over a bill seeking repeal of tamil nadu legislative council later when the house reassembled at 430 pm leader of opposition arun jaitley said we had expressed an apprehension that something would happen and then this item would not be taken up and our worse fears have come true jaitely said if mukherjee could not make a statement in the house the government should take up the matter in the monsoon session parliamentary affairs minister pawan kumar bansal then said since the minister had some urgent business in lok sabha he could not be available for making the statement in the upper house and sought permission of the house to defer it to the next session which was accepted the aircelmaxis row had led to an uproar in rajya sabha on may 13 with the opposition targeting with fresh allegations the son of home minister p chidambaram on the issue chidambaram however denied any wrongdoing and said the company in question advantage consulting could be probed by finance ministry