Rajya Sabha Opposition Suspension

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Opposition INDIA bloc lost almost half its strength in Rajya Sabha and one-third in Lok Sabha as 78 MPs in total were suspended on Monday for unruly behaviour and disregarding the directions of the Chair.

In an unprecedented development, 78 MPs, including both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members, were suspended today for staging protests in demand of a statement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament last week

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday wrote to Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, urging him to revoke the suspension of Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien.

Opposition MPs condemned the suspension of 13 MPs from the Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha on Thursday, saying that it is the right of every elected public representative to ask questions.

It was Minister Piyush Goyal, leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, who moved a motion seeking suspension of Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, calling the opposition leader's huge protest in the house over the Manipur issue in violation of rules.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge raised the issue of the extension of the suspension of Congress MP Rajani Patil beyond the Budget session with Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, calling it "gross parliamentary misdemeanour."

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Opposition INDIA bloc lost almost half its strength in Rajya Sabha and one-third in Lok Sabha as 78 MPs in total were suspended on Monday for unruly behaviour and disregarding the directions of the Chair.

In an unprecedented development, 78 MPs, including both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members, were suspended today for staging protests in demand of a statement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament last week

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday wrote to Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, urging him to revoke the suspension of Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien.

Opposition MPs condemned the suspension of 13 MPs from the Lok Sabha and one from Rajya Sabha on Thursday, saying that it is the right of every elected public representative to ask questions.

It was Minister Piyush Goyal, leader of the House in Rajya Sabha, who moved a motion seeking suspension of Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, calling the opposition leader's huge protest in the house over the Manipur issue in violation of rules.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge raised the issue of the extension of the suspension of Congress MP Rajani Patil beyond the Budget session with Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, calling it "gross parliamentary misdemeanour."