New Delhi [India], Dec 19 (NT): The opposition Congress party on Tuesday staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha after in the hunt for an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his comment on his predecessor Manmohan Singh on an alleged 'secret meeting with Pakistani officials'.

 The Lok Sabha echoed as the members of the Congress party shouted slogans, saying, "Narendra Modi maafi maango."

Ahead of the walkout, the Congress also insisted a clarification from Prime Minister Modi over his accusations on Dr.Singh.

Amid Congress' hue and cry’ in the Rajya Sabha, Union Finance Minister and Leader of the House Arun Jaitley said, "We will certainly invite all my colleagues, including leader of the opposition and try and discuss, find a solution to the issue."

The opposition party Congress sought after a debate on the issue under rule number 267 of Rajya Sabha's rulebook, but Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu discarded all the notices.

During a poll campaign in Gujarat, Prime Minister claimed that Manmohan Singh, former vice president Hamid Ansari were present at a secret meeting in Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's house in Delhi in which Pakistani representative and foreign minister of the neighboring nation also participated.

Modi said the former director general of the Pakistan Army, Arshad Rafiq, had persisted that Congress leader Ahmed Patel should be made the chief minister of Gujarat.