Parliament Winter Session: At least nine more Lok Sabha MPs belonging to different parties have been suspended for 'unruly conduct' inside the House. The lawmakers have been suspended for the rest of the Winter Session of the Parliament.
Who are the nine MPs suspended from Parliament?
The Opposition Lok Sabha MPs who have been suspended include four from Congress, two each from CPI, DMK, and one from CPI(M). The four Congress MPs include Benny Behanan, VK Sreekandan, Mohammad Jawed and Manickam Tagore. Behanan and Sreekandan are representing the Chalakudy and Palakkad Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala while Mohammad Jawed is representing Bihar's Kishanganj and Manickam Tagore is MP from Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar.
Two Communist Party of India (CPI) MPs from Tamil Nadu PR Natarajan and K Subbarayan have also been suspended. Natarajan is representing the Coimbatore constituency whereas Subbarayan is an MP from Tiruppur.
One Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MPs Kanimozhi Karunanidhi represents the Thoothukkudi constituency in Tamil Nadu.
S Venkatesan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) won the 2019 Lok Sabha Election from Tamil Nadu's Madurai.
Earlier today, 6 MPs were suspended for the rest of the Winter Session over inappropriate behaviour. Five of them belong to Congress and one is from Trinamool Congress (TMC).
A total of 15 MPs -- 14 from Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha -- have been suspended.
DMK and Congress react
Speaking on her suspension from Lok Sabha, DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi said, "There is an MP who has actually given the passes for these (accused of Parliament security breach) people to come in. No action has been taken against that MP. Whereas we saw what happened in Mahua's case. Without even the inquiry being complete, she has been disqualified and this MP is not even suspended. He's inside Parliament with us. And when we protested and we want the PM and the Home Minister to come and give a statement in the House, they're not prepared to do that. And when we protested, they are suspending all the opposition MPs. First suspended five, then they suspended nine people. So how is this democracy?"
Reacting to this development, Congress MP Karti Chidambaram said, "What happened yesterday was a colossal security and intelligence failure. We want the government to come and inform the House on what happened yesterday and what are the steps that they are taking. The government is adamant about not coming, either the PM or HM should make a statement... Just because we demanded and protested, in order to stifle our voice, about 15 odd MPs have been suspended for the remaining of the session... We want either the Prime Minister or Home Minister to come to the House and give a categorical statement about the events which happened yesterday and the remedial steps that they are going to take for the future..."
The development has come a day after security breach at the new Parliament building when four people -- two of them jumped from the Lok Sabha chamber and sprayed yellow-coloured gas creating a ruckus while MPs were speaking during the zero-hour and two others who protested, raised slogans outside the building.
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