?No Marshal in the House as long as I am the Prime Minister! Go out, out.? This wasn?t Manmohan Singh. It was RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav who began shouting at the sight of the watch and ward staff while playing ?Senior Prime Minister? at the ?proceedings? of a mock Lok Sabha today.

Senior, because that was the way he chose to distinguish himself from the other self-styled Prime Minister, SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav. And Lalu Prasad had his way because the watch and ward staff disappeared, leaving some 70 Lok Sabha members of the BJP, JD(U), SP, RJD and Left to carry on with the mock session for over 70 minutes.

It all began when the Opposition, upset with Deputy Speaker Karia Munda and the Government for clearing the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2010 without a discussion in four minutes, protested in the House. Since Munda adjourned the House for the day immediately after the passage of the Bill, Opposition members headed for his chamber. When they found the door shut, they went looking for Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. He was nowhere to be seen. Annoyed, they all returned and sat in the chamber. All of a sudden Lalu stood on one of the steps leading to the podium and said, ?Please sit down, the House is on.?

Thereafter, he called upon members to put forth their views if they had objections to the MCI Bill. Uday Singh of the BJP spoke first. ?Please look towards the Chair while you speak,? Lalu told Uday Singh when he found him looking sideways. After hearing him out, Lalu said: ?This Bill will be brought before the House again.? He proposed that BJP Deputy Leader Gopinath Munde be unanimously made the ?Speaker.? Since there was no objection to the proposal, Lalu led Munde to one of the chairs meant for the Lok Sabha staff. ?There will be two Prime Ministers,? Lalu declared ? Mulayam Singh was the other one. BJP member Kirti Azad became the ?Leader of Opposition?. ?The House will be sitting till members stay,? Munde said, adding that ?business will be conducted unanimously?.

However, later, some BJP members said Munde seemed to have got carried away by Lalu?s antics. This, they said, may not have happened if Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj was present in the House today. ?We disapprove of any attempt to trivialise Parliament,? they said.