{"id":37178,"date":"2023-12-19T04:03:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T04:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/indian-opposition-mps-suspended-for-demanding-security-breach-statement\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T04:03:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T04:03:06","slug":"indian-opposition-mps-suspended-for-demanding-security-breach-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/indian-opposition-mps-suspended-for-demanding-security-breach-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian opposition MPs suspended for demanding security breach statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THIS screengrab from a video shared by Samirul Islam, a member of the upper house, Rajya Sabha, shows suspended MPs sitting in protest on the stairs of the parliament building, in New Delhi.\u2014X \/ Samirul Islam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

NEW DELHI: When Bertolt Brecht wrote his acid account of the subversion of democracies by autocratic regimes, he would have hardly had the Indian parliament in mind.<\/p>\n

In a move that would make the legendary German playwright\u2019s spirit squirm, the two houses of India\u2019s parliament on Monday saw the suspension of a total of 78 opposition MPs taking the toll of suspended MPs from December 15 to 92.<\/p>\n

While 33 MPs were suspended in the Lok Sabha, 45 were suspended in the Rajya Sabha. On December 14, a total of 14 MPs (13 in Lok Sabha and one in Rajya Sabha) were suspended.<\/p>\n

The suspensions come as both houses of parliament saw repeated adjournments amid calls from opposition MPs for a statement from Union home minister Amit Shah on the security breach in parliament on December 13, when two men jumped from the public gallery<\/a> into the Lok Sabha hall and opened smoke canisters.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Monday, Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla said that a high-level probe is already looking into the security breach and some of the suggestions given by opposition MPs have been implemented while others will also be looked into.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is sad that politics is being done on this. To enter the well of the house and do sloganeering and disrupt the proceedings is against the dignity of the house,\u201d he said. When the house resumed proceedings in the afternoon, parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi moved a motion to suspend 30 opposition MPs for \u201cmisconduct\u201d and \u201cutter disregard\u201d to the chair.<\/p>\n

Three other Congress MPs\u2019 suspension has been referred to the Privileges Committee, The Wire<\/em> news portal said.<\/p>\n

In the Rajya Sabha leader of the house Piyush Goyal moved a motion to suspend 34 members of the opposition for \u201cmisconduct\u201d and \u201ccontinuously shouting slogans and even entered the well of the house during the course of the day thereby violating the rules of the house\u201d.<\/p>\n

Following the suspensions on Monday, opposition MPs have lashed out at the Modi government for being \u201cautocratic\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rajya Sabha MP and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that \u201cdemocratic norms are being thrown into the dustbin by an autocratic Modi Govt by suspending 47 MPs\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith an Opposition-less Parliament, the Modi Govt can now bulldoze important pending legislations, crush any dissent, without any debate,\u201d he wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

He added that the opposition\u2019s demands include a statement from Shah on the security breach and a discussion in both houses. After the suspensions in the Rajya Sabha, Congress\u2019s Jairam Ramesh who was also suspended said that it was \u201ca bloodbath in the Rajya Sabha with 45 INDIA party MPs getting suspended for demanding a statement by the Home Minister\u201d. \u201cIncidentally, I too figure in this Roll of Honour \u2014 for the first time in my parliamentary career of 19 years,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cThis is Murder of Democracy in India (MODI) at work!\u201d<\/p>\n

Gaurav Gogoi, one of the MPs suspended on Monday, accused the Modi government of depriving the rights of the people of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are bulldozing the opposition and crushing the moral rights of people in the House. It makes evident that they don\u2019t have the intention to run the House,\u201d he told the news agency PTI. \u201cIn order to hide Shah\u2019s failure in protecting parliament they are stooping to these measures.\u201d<\/p>\n

Published in Dawn, December 19th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS screengrab from a video shared by Samirul Islam, a member of the upper house, Rajya Sabha, shows suspended MPs sitting in protest on the stairs of the parliament building, in New Delhi.\u2014X \/ Samirul Islam NEW DELHI: When Bertolt Brecht wrote his acid account of the subversion of democracies by autocratic regimes, he would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/190801289d1edaf.png?r=080345","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}