chandigarh the congress mlas on tuesday staged a symbolic walkout even as the issue of loss suffered by the farmers due to untimely rains and hailstorms dominated the proceedings of second day in the haryana assembly soon after the beginning of zero hour former speaker kuldeep sharma asked house speaker kanwar pal gujjar to take up the issue while seeking adjournment motion over the governments stand on loss to the farmers the congress mlas started raising antibjp slogans after the speaker advised to turn the adjournment motion into call attention motion to be taken up on wednesday shouting slogans the mlas walked out of the assembly hall they however returned to join discussion on governors address this clearly showed how serious the government is on farmers issues the way inld had behaved this also indicates their concern said clp leader kiran choudhary inld too had moved an adjournment motion on this account their leaders too protested speakers move of not allowing the discussion of farmers issue at the time when farmers were already suffering from urea shortage incessant rains and hailstorms have made it worse unfortunately the government is yet announce girdwari special survey of the crops to announce compensation similar is the case with amendment into the land acquisition act in the centre we should all raise above the party lines to pass a resolution while asking the union government to withdraw the amendments said leader of opposition abhay singh chautala of inld a total of five questions were taken up during the question hour besides adampur and hansi mlas kuldeep bishnoi and his wife renuka bishnoi former minister for the parliamentary affairs randeep surjewala also did not attend the proceedings in the house health ministers namaste formula while responding to the call attention motion on deaths due to swine flu in haryana health minister anil vij special came out with an idea of starting namaste greeting a person with folded hands instead of shaking hands with friends these swine flu is communicable disease and travels from person to person hence namaste saves you from coming in physical contact of the person and minimizes the risks of getting infected he saidabhay corrects govt on land release during discussion on the governors address leader of opposition abhay singh chautala asked the finance minister abhimanyu singh to review the statement related to land released by haryana government after the start of process for the land acquisition armed with rti information chautala claimed that over 16000 acres of land had been released at various phases of land acquisition process during the tenure of bhupinder singh hoodaled congress government in haryana unfortunately the officers have given you the misleading figures he said haryana government in its whitepaper said that around 4606 acres of land was released by the hooda governmentformer speakers in advisory role two former speakers kuldeep sharma and r s kadian could be seen advising incumbent speaker kanwar pal gujjar about various rules related to calling attention and business