Congress urges Om Birla not to suspend Opposition MPs for ‘unruly’ behaviour in Lok Sabha
The authorities is considering shifting suspension movement towards as many as 11 Opposition MPs who resorted to sloganeering and throwing of papers in the direction of the Chair in Lok Sabha yesterday. However, Congress has urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla not to suspend the MPs.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress’ chief in Lok Sabha, on Wednesday met Birla and urged him not to suspend MPs. He stated that the MPs had been elevating the priority of the individuals and the federal government is not listening to Opposition events.
Sources instructed ANI that Birla has assured him that suspension will not be executed for now. It is believed {that a} new committee may very well be arrange that can monitor behaviour of the protesting MPs and selections will likely be taken accordingly.
Earlier on Wednesday, unruly scenes prevailed in the Lok Sabha when Congress and TMC MPs indulged in throwing papers in the direction of the Chair as they protested and raised slogans over the Pegasus row. The House was adjourned repeatedly as an unrelenting opposition created uproar, repeating the scenes of the final over one week.
Soon after the Question Hour ended, Speaker Birla left the House and Rajendra Agrawal took over. When papers had been being laid, Congress members Gurjeet Aujala, TN Prathapan, Hibi Eden and a few others threw enterprise papers of the day, some torn papers in addition to placards on the Chair. A chunk of the torn placard landed in the press gallery simply above the Speaker’s podium. The members repeatedly threw papers on the Chair and later in the direction of the Treasury benches. One of the papers landed close to the seat of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi.
Last week, Trinamool Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen was suspended for the remaining a part of the Monsoon Session of Parliament. Sen had snatched and tore the assertion on Pegasus which the Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw was studying.
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