Parliament Winter Session: 78 MPs suspended from Parliament on Monday
The Rajya Sabha was on Monday adjourned till Tuesday morning and a total of 45 MPs have been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for misconduct, through a voice vote for the rest of the Winter Session.
Earlier, 33 opposition MPs, including Congress leader Adhir Ranjan, TMC’s Saugata Roy and Kalyan Banerjee, and DMK’s T R Baalu, A Raja, and Dayanidhi Maran were suspended from Lok Sabha for the remaining part of the winter session for “misconduct” and not obeying the directions of the Chair.
The Opposition MPs have been demanding a detailed statement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in both the Houses over the December 13 Parliament security breach issue.
The Upper House suspended a total of 34 Opposition MPs, including the Congress’ MP Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, and Randeep Singh Surjewala; the Trinamool Congress’ Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Santanu Sen and the RJD’s Manoj Kumar Jha.
Besides them, even MPs including Pramod Tiwari, Amee Yajnik, Naranbhai J Rathwa, Syed Naseer Hussain, Phulo Devi Netam, Shaktisinh Gohil, Rajani Patil, Ranjeet Ranjan, Imran Pratapgarhi, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Mohammad Nadimul Haque, Abir Ranjan Biswas, Santanu Sen, Mausam Noor, Prakash Chik Baraik, Samirul Islam, M Shanmugam, NR Elango, Kanimozhi NVM Somu, R Girirajan, Faiyaz Ahmad, V Sivadasan, Ram Nath Thakur, Aneel Prasad Hegde, Vandana Chavan, Ram Gopal Yadav, Javed Ali Khan, Mahua Maji, Jose K Mani, Ajit Kumar Bhuyan have been suspended for the remainder of the session.
Meanwhile, the matter of suspension of the 11 Rajya Sabha MPs was referred to the Privilege Committee. The MPs whose names have been referred to the Privilege Committee include Jebi Mather Hisham, L Hanumanthaiah, Neeraj Dangi, Rajmani Patel, Kumar Ketkar, GC Chandrashekhar, Binoy Viswam, Sandosh Kumar P, M Mohamed Abdulla, John Brittas and AA Rahim.
After announcing the suspension of the 45 MPs, Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said that many members are deliberately ignoring the Chair.
“The House is not functioning due to disruption,” he said.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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The shameful behavior of the law makers is mostly worst than that of school kids. If these people cannot display a sense of discipline and mutual respect to uphold the dignity of the house, who else do we look up to? The current dispensation obviously has deprived them of something they cannot even talk about. If they do not get power in 2024, by 2029 most of them will be senile old men, besides being held to account for financial wrong doings if any, during the next 5 years. During the past 10 years a lot of convetional barriers used in predicting poll results have been breached. Delivery of social reforms without corruption and leakages ensured the out reach to last man, so in absence of a credible argument for doing better on these count the opposition is severely handicapped and more or less sees the defeat, hence the tantrums.