At the end of the first week of the resumed Budget session of Parliament, the BJP looks dangerously poised to head back to those days of “majestic isolation’’ after the demolition of the Babri Masjid when no political party was willing to ally with it.

The Lok Sabha became a battlefield the entire week with the BJP on one side and every other party, including its allies, arrayed against it.

MPs of all political hues shouted slogans, waved placards, didn’t allow ministers to speak and created so much pandemonium that the Speaker was forced to adjourn the House every day without doing a stitch of work.