Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 6: Congress Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday announced that he will not host the talk show on Sansad TV to show solidarity with the MPs who were suspended from Rajya Sabha.
Tharoor shared his statement on the resignation from the talk show ‘To The Point’ in twitter.
“I believed that my accepting Sansad TV’s invitation to host a show was in the best traditions of India’s parliamentary democracy, reaffirming the principle that our political differences did not prevent us, as Members of Parliament, from participating fully in various parliamentary institutions which belong to us all,” the statement read.
Terming the suspension as ‘arbitrary, he added, “However, the prolonged suspension of 12 MPs from the Rajya Sabha, expelled in an arbitrary manner for actions committed during a previous session, has called into question the very assumption of a bipartisan spirit animating the work of Parliament”.
Earlier on Sunday, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also stepped down as the anchor of the Sansad TV’s show ‘Meri Kahaani’ after being suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the winter session of the parliament.
Notably, twelve opposition MPs were suspended from the Rajya Sabha last Monday for the entire Winter Session of Parliament on account of ‘unruly and violent behavior’ during the Monsoon session of Parliament.
