After being suspended from Lok Sabha for the remaining part of the Winter Session, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi said that BJP-led Centre is running a bulldozer over the opposition to hide the failures of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
A total of forty-seven opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) were suspended for the remaining part of the winter session for "misconduct" and not obeying the directions of the Chair.
Thirty-three opposition MPs, including Congress leader Adhir Ranjan, TMC's Saugata Roy and Kalyan Banerjee and DMK's TR Baalu, A Raja and Dayanidhi Maran, were suspended from Lok Sabha for the remaining part of the winter session for "misconduct" and not obeying the directions of the Chai
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urging him to consider revoking the suspension of 13 MPs, who were suspended from the Parliament on Thursday "for creating a ruckus" in the House over their demand for a statement on the breach.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan halted the Lahore High Court (LHC) order that suspended the appointment of ROs and DROs from bureaucracy and directed the electoral watchdog to issue the election schedule by tonight.
The Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday suspended the Lahore High Court order staying the appointment of returning officers and district returning officers and directed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to issue the election schedule by Friday night, Dawn reported.
Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah over their "silence" on the security breach inside Lok Sabha, Congress leader Manickam Tagore on Friday said that the then Bharatiya Janata Party government in 2001, gave statements within days of the terror attack
"This is a clear hypocritical attitude of this government. On one side, a very big breach of security happened in the Parliament and the person responsible for this is sitting in the House MP Pratap Simha, who had recommended allowing these people entry into the House. On the other hand, the
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday slammed the government's move to suspend 13 MPs from Parliament, saying they wanted discussion on Lok Sabha security breach and the ruling party at the Centre is "now shooting the messenger"
Rajya Sabha passed a motion for suspending the TMC MP, referring his conduct to the Committee of Privileges for examination, investigation and report within three months.
Coming out in support of TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien after he was suspended from the Upper House for the remainder of the ongoing Winter Session for 'unruly behaviour', fellow party MP Dola Sen said he did nothing wrong.
After the suspension of several MPs from both Houses for raising a ruckus on the major security breach in Parliament on Wednesday, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Thursday clarified that one member was mistakenly included in the list of MPs suspended.