New Delhi: The Congress and some opposition parties on Wednesday persisted with their protest against the suspension of 25 MPs as the stalemate in the Rajya Sabha continued over the opposition demand for the resignations of three BJP leaders.

The BJP appealed to the Congress to reconsider its boycott of the Lok Sabha. Congress president Sonia Gandhi led the protest by party MPs near Mahatma Gandhi's statue within the parliament complex on the second successive day over the suspension of party MPs by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.