Rajya Sabha Mps Suspension

Aam Admi Party MP Sanjay Singh received a major relief as his suspension from the Rajya Sabha ended on Thursday. He expressed happiness as permission has been obtained to enter Parliament after almost a year of suspension.

The suspension of 11 Rajya Sabha MPs, held guilty of breach of privilege by a Rajya Sabha Committee, was revoked today ahead of the Budget Session which starts tomorrow.

The Privileges Committees of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are scheduled to meet next week, where 14 opposition MPs will be given an opportunity to put across their views over the issue of their suspension for unruly conduct during the Winter Session.

The ruling party has "weaponised" the suspension of MPs as a convenient tool to "undermine democracy, Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said in a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday invited Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge to his residence on December 25 for an interaction on the issue of disruptions in Parliament and the suspension of opposition MPs.

Jagdeep Dhankhar justified the suspension of parliamentarians from the Rajya Sabha, calling it "unavoidable" due to their "extreme degree of misconduct" and said he "rose to the occasion" when the temple of democracy was "sacrileged".

Reacting to the suspension of members in both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati said at a press conference in Lucknow on Thursday that the suspension of about 150 opposition MPs in both Houses is a sad.

The Congress today said the "entire Modi ecosystem" is now being galvanised on the "so-called mimicry non-issue" while it remains silent on how a BJP MP "facilitated entry of two intruders" into the Lok Sabha and on the suspension of over 140 MPs.

After the suspension of 141 MPs--95 from Lok Sabha and 46 from Rajya Sabha--the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a circular for the suspended MPs, barring them from entering the Parliament chamber, lobby and galleries.

After the suspension of 141 MPs, 95 from the Lok Sabha and 46 from the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi attacked opposition parties on Tuesday and said that they do not want the House to function and they want to do politics in everything.

Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at the ruling BJP Tuesday evening, hours after Lok Sabha suspended 95 MPs - over 140, including those ejected yesterday and last week - in an unprecedented move to close out the final full sitting of this Parliament.

It is the democracy, not the MPs, that has been suspended from parliament, remarked Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on the mass suspension of opposition leaders from parliament.

Stressing that Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee's mimicry had pained him, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said the "personal attack" was an insult of his farmer family background and of the Jat community he comes from.

The ruling BJP - under fire for the suspension of nearly half of all opposition MPs - has hit back by professing outrage at a widely-shared video of the Trinamool's Kalyan Banerjee mimicking Rajya Sabha Chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar.

The ruling BJP faces almost no opposition in either House of Parliament Tuesday, after the Lok Sabha followed its ejection of 33 members yesterday with 49 more suspended this morning.

Aam Admi Party MP Sanjay Singh received a major relief as his suspension from the Rajya Sabha ended on Thursday. He expressed happiness as permission has been obtained to enter Parliament after almost a year of suspension.

The suspension of 11 Rajya Sabha MPs, held guilty of breach of privilege by a Rajya Sabha Committee, was revoked today ahead of the Budget Session which starts tomorrow.

The Privileges Committees of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are scheduled to meet next week, where 14 opposition MPs will be given an opportunity to put across their views over the issue of their suspension for unruly conduct during the Winter Session.

The ruling party has "weaponised" the suspension of MPs as a convenient tool to "undermine democracy, Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge said in a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday invited Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge to his residence on December 25 for an interaction on the issue of disruptions in Parliament and the suspension of opposition MPs.

Jagdeep Dhankhar justified the suspension of parliamentarians from the Rajya Sabha, calling it "unavoidable" due to their "extreme degree of misconduct" and said he "rose to the occasion" when the temple of democracy was "sacrileged".

Reacting to the suspension of members in both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati said at a press conference in Lucknow on Thursday that the suspension of about 150 opposition MPs in both Houses is a sad.

The Congress today said the "entire Modi ecosystem" is now being galvanised on the "so-called mimicry non-issue" while it remains silent on how a BJP MP "facilitated entry of two intruders" into the Lok Sabha and on the suspension of over 140 MPs.

After the suspension of 141 MPs--95 from Lok Sabha and 46 from Rajya Sabha--the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued a circular for the suspended MPs, barring them from entering the Parliament chamber, lobby and galleries.

After the suspension of 141 MPs, 95 from the Lok Sabha and 46 from the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi attacked opposition parties on Tuesday and said that they do not want the House to function and they want to do politics in everything.

Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at the ruling BJP Tuesday evening, hours after Lok Sabha suspended 95 MPs - over 140, including those ejected yesterday and last week - in an unprecedented move to close out the final full sitting of this Parliament.

It is the democracy, not the MPs, that has been suspended from parliament, remarked Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on the mass suspension of opposition leaders from parliament.

Stressing that Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee's mimicry had pained him, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said the "personal attack" was an insult of his farmer family background and of the Jat community he comes from.

The ruling BJP - under fire for the suspension of nearly half of all opposition MPs - has hit back by professing outrage at a widely-shared video of the Trinamool's Kalyan Banerjee mimicking Rajya Sabha Chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar.

The ruling BJP faces almost no opposition in either House of Parliament Tuesday, after the Lok Sabha followed its ejection of 33 members yesterday with 49 more suspended this morning.