Attacking the government over the detention of sitting Lok Sabha MP Farooq Abdullah, Opposition members on Monday termed the National Conference leader's detention as illegal and demanded that he be allowed to attend the House.

Opposition leaders also raised the issue of MPs not being allowed to visit Jammu and Kashmir after abrogation of its special status, whereas parliamentarians from Europe have been taken to the state, with Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury describing the EU delegation as "bhade ke tattu" .

Our leader Rahul Gandhi was not allowed to visit (Jammu and Kashmir), several MPs were sent back...whereas bhade ke tatu from Europe were being taken there. Isn't it an insult to all MPs. I want to ask MPs of ruling alliance don't they think it was their insult," Chowdhury said.

On the detention of Abdullah, he said the NC supremo has been under detention for 106 days and it is his constitutional right to attend the House. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Chowdhary said it was an "atrocity" not to allow the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister to attend Lok Sabha proceedings.

Speaker Om Birla said when Home Minister Amit Shah informed the House in the previous session that Abdullah was not under detention, he was correct. The written information of his detention was received later by the Lok Sabha secretariat. He said now he has written information that Abdullah is under detention.

Dravida Munnetra Kazgham (DMK) leader TR Baalu sought Birla's intervention in the matter, saying the Speaker is the custodian of the House and should ensure that members are allowed to attend the House. "What has happened with Farooq is illegal...You are custodian of the House...You have to make intervention," Baalu said.