Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi moved a motion for the suspension of DK Suresh, Deepak Baij and Nakul Nath.
Published Dec 21, 2023 | 5:21 PM ⚊ Updated Dec 21, 2023 | 5:21 PM
Chaos ensued as two people jump into Lok Sabha on 13 December. (Screengrab)
Three Congress MPs — including the lone Congress MP from Karnataka DK Suresh — were suspended from the Lok Sabha on Thursday, 21 December, for the remainder of the Winter Session for “unruly behaviour”.
With these suspensions, the total number of members of the Lower House against whom such action has been taken touched 100, this session alone.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi moved a motion for the suspension of DK Suresh, Deepak Baij and Nakul Nath.
Meanwhile, the Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die on Thursday for the Winter Session, a day ahead of schedule.
“This House having taken serious note of misconduct of Deepak Baij, DK Suresh, and Nakul Nath in utter disregard to the House and authority of the Chair through the display of placards, entering into the Well of the House…may be suspended from the House for the remaining session,” Joshi said.
Earlier in the day, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had warned the three MPs against protesting in the House.
As the House met this morning, Opposition MPs continued their protest against the suspension of a large number of MPs from the House and demanded a discussion on the Parliament security breach issue and a statement by Home Minister Amit Shah.
Opposition MPs could be heard raising slogans as the Question Hour was taken up.
Two MPs were suspended from the Lower House for the remainder of the Winter Session on 20 December and 49 MPs were suspended on 19 December.
The Lok Sabha suspended 33 Opposition members from the House on 18 December.
While 30 MPs were suspended for the remainder of the Winter Session, three were suspended pending a report of the Privileges Committee.
The three Congress MPs — K Jayakumar (Tiruvallur) and Vijay Vasanth (Kanniyakumari) from Tamil Nadu, and Abdul Khaleque from Barpeta in Assam — had climbed onto the Lok Sabha Speaker’s podium to raise slogans.
The suspended Lok Sabha MPs included 11 from the Congress, nine from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) nine from the DMK, two from the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), and one each from JD(U) and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP).
On the same day, 34 of the Rajya Sabha MPs were suspended for the remainder of the Winter Session, and 11 were directed to stay away from the House, pending an inquiry report on their conduct by the Committee of Privileges.
The two Houses of Parliament on 14 December suspended 14 Opposition MPs for the remainder of the Winter Session. Of the 14 — nine from the Congress, two each from the DMK and the CPI(M), and one each from the CPI and the TMC — 13 were suspended from the Lok Sabha and one was from the Rajya Sabha.
The lone Rajya Sabha member suspended was Derek O’Brien of the TMC.
(With PTI inputs)
