Parliament winter session: 128 Opposition MPs suspended from Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha in two days
MPs including Shashi Tharoor, Dimple Yadav and Manish Tewari suspended from Lok Sabha on Tuesday. As per the latest updates, Lok Sabha Chairman Om Birla on Tuesday suspended NCP leader Supriya Sule, Congress MPs Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Md Faisal, Karti Chidambaram, TMC's Sudip Bandhopadhyay, Samajwadi Party's Dimple Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party's Danish Ali for the remainder of the winter session of Parliament. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal brought the motion to suspend the members.
Parliament Security Breach: ‘Mother of democracy…’, says Kapil Sibal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said that the members had been suspended for showing placards and that all MPs had agreed that they will not resort to this in the new Parliament building. BJP MP Rajendra Agrawal, who was in the chair, asked the government to move the motion for suspension of MPs. Parliament ruckus: 33 MPs suspended from Lok Sabha. Check full list A total of 78 MPs -- 33 from Lok Sabha and 45 from Rajya Sabha -- were suspended for the remainder of winter session on Monday.
Congress' Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, Randeep Singh Surjewala were among the suspended MPs on Monday. The members will remain suspended till a report is submitted by the panel. For the first time in 34 years, Parliament suspends Opposition 92 MPs The opposition party MPs have been demanding a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament on December 13.
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