Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 29: Rajya Sabha on the first day of its business for the winter session on Monday suspended 12 members for the rest of the current session.
The 12 Rajya Sabha MPs have been suspended on account of ‘unruly and violent behavior’ during the Monsoon session of Parliament.
The suspended MPs include six from Congress, two each from TMC and Shiv Sena and one each from CPM and CPI.
The suspended MPs are Elamaram Kareem of CPM, Phulo Devi Netam, Chhaya Verma, R Bora, Rajamani Patel, Syed Nasir Hussain, Akhilesh Prasad Singh of the Congress, Binoy Viswam of CPI, Dola Sen, Shanta Chhetri of TMC, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Anil Desai of Shiv Sena.
The action has been taken against them for the ‘indiscipline’ in the monsoon session of the house.
Reacting to the suspension, Shiv Sena’s MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said, “From District Court to Supreme Court, an accused is heard even there, lawyers are provided for them too, sometimes Govt officials are sent to take their version. Here our version wasn’t taken.”
“If you see the CCTV footage it has been recorded how male marshals were jostling female MPs. All of this on one side & your decision on the other? What kind of unparliamentary behavior is this?” she added.
Congress Rajya Sabha member, Chhaya Verma said that the suspension is simply unfair and unjust and added that there were other members from other parties who created a ruckus but the chairman suspended her.
“PM Modi is doing just as he wishes since he enjoys a brute majority,” she added.
“This is totally undemocratic; murder of democracy & Constitution. We’ve not been given the opportunity to be heard. This is a one-sided, biased, vindictive decision. Opposition parties haven’t been consulted,” said Congress MP Ripun Bora.
The 12 Rajya Sabha MPs have been suspended for indiscipline in the last session of the House.
The House has been adjourned till tomorrow, 30th November
— ANI (@ANI) November 29, 2021
