Rajya Sabha was adjourned without a future date on Wednesday, a day ahead of the scheduled end of the Winter Session of Parliament, with Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu lamenting that the Upper House functioned much below its potential due to chaos.

The session, which started on November 29, was to conclude on December 23. Naidu said he was not happy to share with members the that the House functioned “much below its potential”. He said, “I urge all of you to...reflect and introspect if this session could have been different and better. I don’t want to speak elaborately on the course of the session that would lead me to make a very critical view.”