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New Delhi: The series of suspensions in the Lok Sabha does not seem to be ending. Today total of 49 members of Parliament including Congress MP Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, NCP’s Supriya Sule, and NC MP Farooq Abdullah were suspended from the house for the remainder of the winter session.
Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal moved the motion to suspend the MPs for the remainder of the session for utter “disregard”, raising slogans and bringing placards. The House passed the resolution with a voice vote.
Following the suspension of 49 MPs, the House was adjourned till 2 p.m. On Monday, 33 Lok Sabha MPs and 45 Rajya Sabha MPs were suspended. On December 14, 13 Lok Sabha MPs and one Rajya Sabha MP were also suspended. So far, a total of 141 MPs have been suspended from both houses of the Parliament.
Other MPs suspended included Karti Chidambaram, Kinwar Danish Ali, Sudip Bandhopadhyay, Abdul Smad, Pradyut Bardoloi, Geeta Kora, SR Parthiban, A Ganeshmoorthy, Mala Rai, A Chellakumar, Dimple Yadav, Hasnain Masoodi, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Santosh Kumar, Ravneet Bittu, Dinesh Yadav, K Sudhakaran, P P Mohammad Faizal, Amol Kole, Sushi Kumar Rinku, Sunil Kumar Singh, ST Hassan, Pratibha Singh, Chandreshwar Prasad, Adur Prakash and others were suspended for remainder of the Session.
On suspension Congress MP Shahi Tharoor, who is also one of the suspended MPs said that they (BJP) want an ‘Opposition Mukt Lok Sabha’ and will do something similar in the Rajya Sabha too. Tharoor said, “Today, in solidarity with my colleagues, I too joined the protest and everybody who was present has been suspended for the rest of the session which means they want to pass their Bills without any discussion. I think it is a betrayal of Parliamentary democracy.”
