50 More Opposition MPs Suspended From Lok Sabha
Tuesday witnessed the suspension of 49 more opposition MPs from the Lok Sabha constituting the total number of suspended MPs to 141. This comes a day after 78 Parliament members were suspended over the security breach protest on Monday. The suspended opposition MPs include Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Karti Chidambaram, NCP leader Supriya Sule, and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah.
Lok Sabha has taken strict action against the opposition MPs for disrupting the proceedings in the house. Arjun Ram Meghwal, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, brought the motion to suspend the members. With this, a total of 141 MPs have now been suspended for the remainder of the ongoing Winter session of Parliament. This includes 95 MPs from Lok Sabha and 46 from Rajya Sabha. Earlier on December 17, Parliament suspended 78 opposition MPs. Meanwhile, Lok Sabha has been adjourned until 2 p.m. Earlier, the House faced adjournments, with opposition MPs raising slogans and displaying placards.
Opposition members have been protesting in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over the security breach that happened in Parliament as two intruders entered the Lok Sabha chamber on December 13 and released coloured smoke from canisters. Opposition MPs mainly demanded that Union Home Minister Amit Shah address Parliament on this matter.
Today at least 50 more INDIA MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha alone! A complete purge is being executed so that draconian Bills are passed without any meaningful debate, and so that the BJP MP who facilitated entry of the two intruders into the Lok Sabha on December 13th…
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) December 19, 2023
Congress general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, strongly reacted to this suspension and said that “draconian Bills” are passed without any meaningful debate. “The new Parliament reflects Namocracy in all its tyranny,” added the Congress leader on his X post on December 19.
