{"id":8774,"date":"2020-03-06T08:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T03:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8774"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:05","slug":"7-congress-mps-suspended-for-rest-of-budget-session-in-parliament-for-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/7-congress-mps-suspended-for-rest-of-budget-session-in-parliament-for-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Congress MPs suspended for rest of budget session in Parliament for &#8220;misconduct&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Congress MPs were suspended on Thursday for the rest of the budget session in Parliament for &#8220;gross misconduct&#8221; and &#8220;utter disrespect&#8221; 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.<br \/>\nThe suspended members are Gaurav Gogoi, TN Prathapan, Dean Kuriakose, Benny Behananm Manickam Tagore, Rajmohan Unnithan and Gurjeet Singh Aujla.<br \/>\nThere 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.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, the said MPs were allegedly seen snatching and tossing papers from the Speaker&#8217;s podium as a bill was being discussed. The house was adjourned till 3 pm amidst the ruckus and the MPs were suspended later.<br \/>\nCongress has called the decision &#8220;revenge politics&#8221; by the Bharatiya Janata Party government and accused the party of &#8220;dictatorship&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been an ongoing row in the Parliament for the past three days over the Delhi violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[325],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-delhi-violence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8774"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}