Several Opposition MPs including Shashi Tharoor (Congress), Farooq Abdullah (National Conference), Manish Tewari (Congress), Dimple Yadav (SP) and Supriya Sule (NCP) have been suspended from Lok Sabha for the remainder of Winter Session for displaying placards and elevating slogans, demanding a reply from the house minister over the December 13 Parliament safety breach matter. In a significant safety breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror assault final Wednesday, two males — Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D — jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the general public gallery throughout Zero Hour, launched colored smoke and shouted slogans, earlier than being overpowered by the MPs. Two others, including a girl, had been detained exterior the Parliament complicated for staging a protest.
49 Lok Sabha MPs including Karti Chidambaram (Congress), Ravneet Singh Bittu (Congress), Sudip Bandyopadhyay (Trinamool Congress), Rajiv Ranjan alias Lalan Singh (JDU) and Dinesh Chandra Yadav (JDU) have additionally been suspended. 17 Lok Sabha MPs from Congress, 10 from JDU, 7 from DMK, 4 from Trinamool Congress, 3 from NCP, 2 from JKNC and SP and 1 from IUML, AAP and VCK had been suspended in the present day. Danish Ali, suspended by the BSP for ‘anti-party actions’, was additionally on the list.
On Monday, Lok Sabha suspended 33 opposition members, including the chief of the Congress occasion in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, DMK’s TR Baalu and Sougata Ray of the Trinamool Congress, from the House for displaying placards and elevating slogans over the Parliament safety breach subject. A complete of 141 MPs have been suspended until now over the difficulty.
‘Opposition-mukt Lok Sabha'(*49*)
Reacting to the suspension, Samajwadi Party Lok Sabha MP Dimple Yadav stated, “This is ultimately the failure of the government.” Congress MP Shashi Tharoor stated, “It is clear that they want an Opposition-mukt Lok Sabha and they will do something similar in Rajya Sabha. At this point, unfortunately, we have to start writing obituaries for Parliamentary democracy in India…Today, in solidarity with my colleagues, I too joined the protest and everybody who was present has been suspended for the rest of the session which means they want to pass their Bills without any discussion. I think it is a betrayal of Parliamentary democracy.”
27 queries by suspended MPs deleted (*49*)
As many as 27 questions posed by suspended opposition members of Lok Sabha had been deleted from the list of queries to be requested on Tuesday. Similarly, the names of a number of suspended MPs had been eliminated from teams of members asking the identical query to varied ministers. The identify of Hanuman Beniwal, who resigned from Lok Sabha after being elected as a member of the Rajasthan meeting, was additionally deleted.
List of 49 Lok Sabha MPs suspended in the present day(*49*)
- Manish Tewari (Congress)
- Shashi Tharoor (Congress)
- Karti Chidambaram (Congress)
- V Vaithilingam (Congress)
- Gurjeet Singh Aujla (Congress)
- Francisco Sardinha (Congress)
- Adoor Prakash (Congress)
- Pradyut Bordoloi (Congress)
- MK Vishnu Prasad (Congress)
- Ravneet Singh Bittu (Congress)
- Okay Sudhakaran (Congress)
- A Chellakumar (Congress)
- Muhammad Sadiq (Congress)
- Jyotsna Mahant (Congress)
- Jasbir Singh Gill (Congress)
- Geeta Koda (Congress)
- Pratibha Singh (Congress)
- Rajiv Ranjan alias Lalan Singh (JDU)
- Dinesh Chandra Yadav (JDU)
- Dulal Chandra Goswami (JDU)
- Mahabali Singh (JDU)
- Chandeshwar Prasad (JDU)
- Santosh Kumar (JDU)
- Giridhari Yadav (JDU)
- Alok Kumar Suman (JDU)
- Dileshwar Kamait (JDU)
- Sunil Kumar (JDU)
- S Jagathrakshakan (DMK)
- P Veluchamy (DMK)
- S Senthil Kumar (DMK)
- SR Parthiban (DMK)
- A Ganeshamurthi (DMK)
- Dhanush M Kumar (DMK)
- SS Palanimanickam (DMK)
- Sudip Bandyopadhyay (Trinamool Congress)
- Khalilur Rahaman (Trinamool Congress)
- Mala Roy (Trinamool Congress)
- Sajda Ahmed (Trinamool Congress)
- Supriya Sule (NCP)
- Mohammed Faizal Padippura (NCP)
- Amol Kolhe (NCP)
- Farooq Abdullah (JKNC)
- Hasnain Masoodi (JKNC)
- Danish Ali (Suspended BSP chief)
- Dimple Yadav (SP)
- ST Hasan (SP)
- MP Abdussamad Samadani (IUML)
- Thol Thirumavalavan (VCK)
- Sushil Kumar Rinku (AAP)
