New Delhi/Mumbai, Aug 3 - Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav shocked the Lok Sabha Monday when he levelled corruption charges against Petroleum Minister Murli Deora, who had earlier sought to spell out the government stand on the dispute over Reliance gas between the two Ambani brothers.

Soon after, industrialist Anil Ambani welcomed Deora's statement that natural gas will be supplied to his group's power plant in Uttar Pradesh but said his brother Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries was deliberately keeping low the production of this natural resource from the Krishna-Godavari basin.

'This is the minister who makes money. The petroleum minister must resign. He is indulging in corruption,' alleged Yadav, who led the protests in the Lok Sabha resulting in the house being adjourned.

'Throughout the statement, the minister was trying to hide the real issue,' said Yadav, referring to Deora's speech earlier explaining the government's stand on the dispute over gas between Reliance Industries and Reliance Natural Resources.

'He (Deora) is doing a favour worth Rs.50,000 crore to a single individual. The entire country is being hoodwinked,' Yadav, speaking in Hindi, alleged, after which Speaker Meira Kumar adjourned the house at 12.20 pm for two hours.

Minister Deora was present in the Lok Sabha when Yadav made his allegation, including discrimination against Uttar Pradesh in supply of gas from the fields. He later got to his feet along with his Congress party colleagues to protest the serious charge.

When the house reassembled, Yadav led his party colleagues in a walkout after Deputy Speaker Karia Munda, who was in the chair at that time, declined to allow him to speak any further over the issue, where he also sought gas for the Dadri power project in Uttar Pradesh, on the outskirts of the national capital.

The protests by the Samajwadi Party members came after Deora issued a statement that the government would do everything possible to protect public interest over the distribution of gas from the fields, being called one of the largest such discoveries in Asia in recent years.

Anil Ambani-led Reliance Natural Resources and elder brother Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries are fighting a bitter legal battle over the supply and pricing of gas from the fields off the Andhra Pradesh coast. Their dispute, brewing for nearly five years now, has arisen out of an agreement between their two companies.

'We have nothing to do with the private dispute of companies or individuals,' Deora said, glossing over the dispute. 'The intention of the government is very clear. We will allocate gas to Dadri plant subject to availability and Dadri plant will be treated on the same footing as other similar plants placed under similar circumstances.