{"id":496631,"date":"2023-12-19T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=496631"},"modified":"2023-12-19T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:38:47","slug":"opposition-mps-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/opposition-mps-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Winter Session: 141 Opposition MPs suspended from Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha for remainder of Winter Session"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A total of 141 Opposition MPs have been suspended from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha for remainder of the winter session of Parliament on charges on serious misconduct. Among those suspended include National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, Samajwadi Party\u2019s Dimple Yadav, NCP Leader Supriya Sule, Karti Chidambaram, Manish Tiwari and Shashi Tharoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision for suspension was taken after the House faced adjornments, with opposition members raising slogans and displaying placards over their demands. Minister of State Ram Meghwal brought the motion to suspend the MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today at least 50 more INDIA MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha alone! A complete purge is being executed so that draconian Bills are passed without any meaningful debate, and so that the BJP MP who facilitated entry of the two intruders into the Lok Sabha on December 13th\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jairam_Ramesh\/status\/1737011954118451320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reacting to the rash suspensions, Congress general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh said that the complete purge is executed to bulldoze draconian bills without any meaningful debate and let the BJP MP who facilitated the intruders into the Lok Sabha go scot- free. He said the new Parliament reflects the Namocracy in all its tyranny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | AAP MP Sushil Kumar Rinku suspended from Lok Sabha for the remainder of the monsoon session for throwing papers at the Chair.<br><br>Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi moved the motion. Speaker Om Birla sought approval of the House before announcing the decision. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RbVrezUvza\">pic.twitter.com\/RbVrezUvza<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1687105912681693184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TMC leader Mahua Moitra took a swipe at the Modi government, who was expelled from Lok Sabha in a cash-for-query case, said next Adani Annual shareholders meeting to be held in Lok Sabha chamber. AAP Lok Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Rinku said those speaking the truth and asking questions have been suspended from the house today. He said the public is seeing the kind of dirty politics happening in the Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Total of 141 Opposition MPs suspended.  <br><br>Next Adani Annual Shareholders meeting to be held in Lok Sabha Chamber.<\/p>&mdash; Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MahuaMoitra\/status\/1737014966727614844?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reacting to the suspension, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said it is clear the government wants an Opposition-mukt Lok Sabha and they will do something similar in Rajya Sabha. He said at this point the suspended will have to start writing obituaries for parliamentary democracy in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is clear that the BJP wants an &#39;Opposition-Mukt&#39; Lok Sabha, and they will do something similar in the Rajya Sabha.\u00a0<br><br>Unfortunately, we have to start writing obituaries for parliamentary democracy in India.\u00a0<br><br>Today, in solidarity with my colleagues, I too joined the protest,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cW8afOkh5y\">pic.twitter.com\/cW8afOkh5y<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Congress (@INCIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/INCIndia\/status\/1737022534816772551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tharoor added today in solidarity with his colleagues, he too joined the protest and everybody present has been suspended for the rest of the session which means they want to pass their bills without any discussion. He said this is a complete betrayal of parliamentary democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Among those suspended include National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah, Samajwadi Party\u2019s Dimple Yadav, NCP Leader Supriya Sule, Karti Chidambaram, Manish Tiwari and Shashi Tharoor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":496633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Parliament Winter Session: 141 Opposition MPs suspended from Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha for remainder of Winter Session","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,4,125714],"tags":[159690,115155,91740],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/19144943\/Parliament11-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496631"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=496631"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=496631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->