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regular-article-logo Thursday, 16 May 2024

Parliament winter session 2023: Record suspensions continue, 49 more Lok Sabha MPs axed from House

Among those suspended on Tuesday are NC leader Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari, Karti Chidambaram and NCP Supriya Sule

PTI Published 19.12.23, 01:09 PM
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi with suspended Opposition MPs during their protest amid the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi with suspended Opposition MPs during their protest amid the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi. PTI

As many as 49 Lok Sabha MPs were suspended from the House for disrupting proceedings on Tuesday, a day after 78 opposition members were suspended from Parliament.

The MPs suspended on Tuesday include National Conference's Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and Karti Chidambaram and Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav.

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Among the other MPs suspended from the Lok Sabha included Supriya Sule of the NCP, S Jagathrakshakan and DNV Senthil Kumar of the DMK, Giridhari Yadav of the JD(U), Danish Ali who has been suspended from the BSP and Sushil Kumar Rinku of the AAP.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, while moving a motion for the suspension of the MPs, accused the protesting members of being "frustrated" over the recent assembly election results.

"INDIA bloc MPs have been demanding a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament on December 13. They had agreed not to bring placards. They are frustrated with their loss, so taking such steps. These people will not come back in the House next time if this behaviour continues," Joshi said.

"They are insulting the chair and the people of India by bringing placards," he said.

As protests continued, the House was adjourned till 2 pm.

In an unprecedented move, 78 opposition MPs were suspended from Parliament on Monday, the highest number of suspensions in a single day, drawing sharp criticism from the Congress and other parties that accused the BJP government of trying to bulldoze key legislations in an "Opposition-less" Parliament.

An additional 49 Lok Sabha members were suspended on Tuesday for disrupting House proceedings. INDIA bloc MPs have been demanding a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament on December 13.

The action taken on Tuesday has brought the total number of suspended opposition MPs from both houses to 141 since last Thursday. AAP member Sanjay Singh has been suspended as a Rajya Sabha member since July 24.

List of 29 Lok Sabha MPs suspended from House

The MPs are:

Congress: Shashi Tharoor Manish Tewari Karti Chidambaram V. Vaithilingam Gurjeet Singh Aujla Saptagiri Ulaka Adoor Prakash Pradyut Bordoloi Geeta Koda Francisco Sardinha Jyotsna Mahant A Chellakumar Ravneet Bittu K. Sudhakaran Muhammad Sadiq M. K. Vishnu Prasad Jasbir Singh Gill Pratibha Singh

National Conference: Farooq Abdullah Hasnain Masoodi

Samajwadi Party: Dimple Yadav ST Hasan

NCP: Supriya Sule PP Mohammed Faizal Amol Kolhe

IUML: Abdul Samadani

JDU: Giridhari Yadav Rajiv Ranjan Singh Santosh Kumar Dulal Chandra Goswami Dinesh Yadav Mahabali Singh Sunil Kumar Chandeshwar Prasad, Alok Kumar Suman Dileshwar Kamait

DMK: S. Jagathrakshakan SR Parthiban A Ganeshamurthi P Velusamy DNV Senthil Kumar Dhanush M Kumar

TMC: Mala Roy Sudip Bandyopadhyay Khalil Ur Rahaman Sajda Ahmed

AAP: Sushil Kumar Rinku Danish Ali (suspended from BSP)

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