Six Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MPs were ordered to leave the Rajya Sabha for rest of the day for “grossly disorderly” conduct, after they entered the well of the house and displayed placards while protesting over the Pegasus scandal.
The Rajya Sabha members are Dola Sen, Md. Nadimul Haque, Abir Ranjan Biswas, Shanta Chhetri, Arpita Ghosh and Mausam Noor. Rajya Sabha chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu first asked members to go back to their seats and then said rule 255 would be invoked against them.
Opposition leaders, including Trinamool members, had gone to the well of the house – some of them holding placards – demanding a discussion on the Pegasus spyware allegedly used to snoop on opposition leaders, government critics and journalists.
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After the suspension order, Trinamool MP Derek O’Brien tweeted that opposition MPs would protest at 2 pm. “Two pm in Rajya Sabha. Today. Come watch the entire Opposition unite against Modi-Shah dictatorship,” he wrote, along with the hashtag #KhelaHobe, the Trinamool’s slogan for the West Bengal Assembly election.
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