Farooq Abdullah,Shashi Tharoor, Supriya Sule among 49 Opposition MPs suspended from Lok Sabha
Earlier on Monday 78 MPs were suspended from both Houses of Parliament. With this the total number of suspended MPs in this session are 141, a figure unprecedented in the history of the Indian Parliament
As many as 49 Opposition members of the Lok Sabha, including Supriya Sule, Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and Farooq Abdullah, have been named and suspended in the Winter session of the Parliament on on December 19.They were alleged to have engaged in misconduct inside the chambers.
INDIA bloc MPs have been demanding a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament and revocation of the suspension of MPs.
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
VCK: Thol. Thirumavalavan
Danish Ali (suspended from BSP)
27 queries by suspended MPs deleted from LS question list
As many as 27 questions posed by suspended Opposition members of Lok Sabha were deleted from the list of queries to be asked on Tuesday.
Similarly, the names of several suspended MPs were removed from groups of members asking the same question to various ministers.
The name of Hanuman Beniwal, who resigned from Lok Sabha after being elected as a member of the Rajasthan Assembly, was also deleted.
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,” Mr. Joshi said.
Earlier on Monday 78 MPs were suspended from both Houses of Parliament. With this the total number of suspended MPs in this session are 141, a figure unprecedented in the history of the Indian Parliament.
Both in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, the protesting Opposition MPs were demanding a statement from Mr. Shah on last week’s security breach in the Lok Sabha, which led to the arrest of six people.
(With inputs/photo credit – PTI)
