Seven Congress MPs were suspended on Thursday for the rest of the budget session in Parliament for “gross misconduct” and “utter disrespect” to the Speaker. A committee has also been formed by the Speaker to scrutinise the conduct of these seven MPs for possible disqualification from the membership of the House.
The suspended members are Gaurav Gogoi, TN Prathapan, Dean Kuriakose, Benny Behananm Manickam Tagore, Rajmohan Unnithan and Gurjeet Singh Aujla.
There has been an ongoing row in the Parliament for the past three days over the Delhi violence. The Speaker has set the date for discussion a day after Holi, but the Opposition has been demanding a date ahead. Speaker Om Birla has been saying that the time is not right for such a discussion.
On Thursday, the said MPs were allegedly seen snatching and tossing papers from the Speaker’s podium as a bill was being discussed. The house was adjourned till 3 pm amidst the ruckus and the MPs were suspended later.
Congress has called the decision “revenge politics” by the Bharatiya Janata Party government and accused the party of “dictatorship”.
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