Amid protests from opposition MPs seeking answers to the security breach in Parliament, the Lok Sabha on Tuesday suspended 49 more MPs for ‘disrupting’ the proceedings of the House.
The suspension shall be for the remainder of the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.
With this, a total of 82 MPs have been suspended from Lok Sabha since December 14, the day after the security of Parliament was breached.
Among the suspended are six MPs from Punjab –Gurjit Aujla, Manish Tewari, Ravneet Bittu, Jasbir Gill, Mohd Sadiq and Sushil Kumar Rinku. The first five are from Congress and Rinku is from AAP.
Veteran Farooq Abdullah from J&K is among those suspended.
The suspension was carried out after the House had been adjourned twice since morning.
Chair Rajendra Aggarwal first read out the names of those, he said, were disrupting the functioning of the House. The Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs moved the resolution seeking suspension which was passed by a voice vote.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Prahlad Joshi read out the rules under which these MPs have been suspended.
Acrimonious scenes continued in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday with Speaker Om Birla warning members who had stormed the Well holding placards in protest. Some of these placards had images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Birla spoke at the start of Question Hour at 11 am when he told placard-holding protesting MPs, “This is last warning to you to return to your seats and not hold placards in the House.” He adjourned the House to meet again at noon.
