Delhi (The Stellar News): On Tuesday nineteen Rajya Sabha MPs were suspended for the rest of the week for storming Well of the House and shouting slogans during the ongoing monsoon session a day after action was taken by Lok Sabha speaker Om Prakash Birla against four Congress MPs.
The suspended MPs include Sushmita Dev, Mausam Noor, Dr Santanu Sen, Dola Sen, Santanu Sen, Nadimal Haque, Abhi Ranjan Biswas, and Shanta Chhetri are the Trinamool Congress MPs who have been suspended. A.A Rahim of the CPI-M, Mohammad Abdullah of Left, and the DMK’s Kanimozhi are also among those barred. Other DMK leaders who are in the list are: M. Mohamed Abdulla, Kalyanasundaram, NR Elango, and M Shanmugam. The opposition has been staging protests, demanding discussion on topics like inflation. Ahead of the beginning of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat had issued a circular on July 14 banning demonstrations, protests, strikes, fast or religious ceremonies by MPs in the Parliament.
The directive held significances as over the last few sessions of Parliament, the opposition leaders had held protests in the premises of the House on many matters of national importance to pressurise the government to hold a discussion on them.
Report: Deepanjot Kaur (Under Training)
