Lok Sabha. Photo: Collected
Fourteen opposition MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha today, and one from the Rajya Sabha, for interrupting House proceedings, a day after a serious security breach in parliament yesterday afternoon. The administration decided to withdraw the suspension of DMK MP SR Parthiban because he was not present in the House and his name was inserted by mistake, bringing the total number of suspended MPs down by one by the evening.
Mr. Parthiban was one of the suspended lawmakers. Soon after, DMK sources said that the MP was not in the House and was in Tamil Nadu.
By the evening, the Centre had clarified, stating that Mr Parthiban's name had been removed due to a "mistaken identity."
Of the suspended MPs, nine are from the Congress, two from the CPM, one from the CPI, and one from the DMK.
Congress MPs Manickam Tagore, Md Javed, VK Shreekandan, Benny Behanan, DMK MP K Kanimozhi, CPM MPs PR Natarajan and S Venkateshan, and CPI MP K Subbarayan are among the suspended.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien was barred from the Rajya Sabha for the rest of the term for "unruly behavior." Despite being suspended, he refused to leave the House, and the subject was sent to the House's Privileges Committee following a motion by the BJP's Piyush Goyal.
The suspension was described as a "horrible, undemocratic move" by Congress Rajya Sabha MP KC Venugopal.
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