As many as 49 more opposition members were suspended from Lok Sabha Tuesday for the remainder of the winter session of Parliament on charges of ‘serious misconduct’. Among those suspended include Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari, and Karti Chidambaram, NCP leader Supriya Sule, Samajwadi Party’s Dimple Yadav, and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah.
A total of 141 opposition MPs have so far been suspended from their respective houses till at least the end of the winter session for continuing to press for statements from the Prime Minister and the home minister, and a discussion, on the breach of Parliament security last week.
Reacting to the latest rash of suspensions, Congress general secretary incharge of communications, Jairam Ramesh claimed that the “complete purge” is executed to bulldoze “draconian bills” without any meaningful debate and let the BJP MP who facilitated the intruders into the Lok Sabha go scot-free.
“The new Parliament reflects Namocracy in all its tyranny,” Ramesh said in a social media post on X.
AAP Lok Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Rinku said, “Those speaking the truth and asking questions have been suspended from the House today. The public is seeing the kind of dirty politics happening in the Parliament.”
