TMC MP Derek O'Brien on Monday hit out at the government over its decision to cut short the Monsoon session of Parliament after both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned sine die on Monday.

"This is the seventh consecutive time the Parliament session has been cut short. Stop mocking #Parliament. We will fight for its sanctity and prevent PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah from turning this great institution into the Gujarat Gymkhana," O'Brien said in a tweet, reported PTI.

Earlier in the day, O'Brien took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi while delivering his farewell speech for the outgoing Vice President Venkaiah Naidu in the Rajya Sabha.

He said Naidu, who was also the chairman of the upper House, would have tried hard to get the Prime Minister to perhaps answer one question in his full tenure "but that did not happen".

He went on to point out that on September 20, 2020, the day the upper House passed the now repealed Farm Bills, he was not on the Chair. "Maybe, someday you will answer that in your autobiography," O'Brien said.

The Trinamul MP also reminded Naidu of his "passionate speech" on fuel prices when the BJP was in the Opposition.

"On 2nd September 2013, you made a passionate speech on petrol and diesel in the House. One day perhaps you will tell us in your autobiography why then...Let us not go there," he said.

O'Brien continued and said that Naidu had in 2013 also made an intervention regarding phone-tapping but there was no discussion on Pegasus in the upper House during his tenure as chairman.

"On 1st March 2013, you had made an intervention on phone tapping for 5-6 minutes in the House. We tried Pegasus last few years but we did not get a discussion, Sir," he said.

Naidu demits office on Wednesday and his successor Jagdeep Dhankhar will take the oath of office on August 11.

Prime Minister Modi had earlier commended the Vice President's "diligent" work ethic. "He never considered work a burden," he told the Rajya Sabha.