With each homes of Parliament witnessing ruckus over yesterday’s safety breach, the Lok Sabha Speaker in the present day suspended 14 opposition MPs whereas Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar suspended TMC MP Derek O’Brien from the home.
Those suspended from the Lok Sabha embrace DMK MP (*15*) Karunanidhi, Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, Benny Behanan, VK Sreekandan, Mohammad Jawed, PR Natarajan, Okay Subrahmanyam, SR Parthiban, S Venkatesan and Manickam Tagore. The MPs had been suspended for ‘unruly conduct’.
On her suspension, (*15*) Karunanidhi stated, “There is an MP who has actually given the passes for these (accused of Parliament security breach) people to come in. No action has been taken against that MP….He’s inside Parliament with us. And when we protested and we want the PM and the Home Minister to come and give a statement in the House, they’re not ready to do that. And when we protested, they are suspending all the opposition MPs. First suspended five, then they suspended nine people. So how is this democracy?”
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram stated, “What happened yesterday was a colossal security and intelligence failure. We want the government to come and inform the House on what happened yesterday and what are the steps that they are taking. The government is adamant about not coming, either the PM or HM should make a statement…Just because we demanded and protested, in order to stifle our voice, about 15 odd MPs have been suspended for the remaining of the session.”
The opposition has been demanding that both the Prime Minister or Home Minister make a press release concerning the safety breach that occurred yesterday.
