Parliament Securtity Breach: After five Congress member of parliaments were suspended, the lower house of Parliament suspended nine opposition MPs. The suspended MPs include- Benny Behanan, VK Sreekandan, Mohammad Jawed, PR Natarajan, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, K Subrahmanyam, SR Parthiban, S Venkatesan, and Manickam Tagore.
The Lok Sabha suspended the Opposition MPs citing ‘unruly conduct’. The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day amid opposition din over Wednesday’s security breach.
On Thursday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi had moved a resolution to suspend five Congress MPs from the Lok Sabha for the remaining of the winter session. The suspended MPs are TN Prathapan, Hibi Eden, Jothimani, Ramya Haridas, and Dean Kuriakose.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi moved a resolution amid the din to suspend the five.
“I move the following that this House having taken misconduct of T N Prathapan, Hibi Eden, Jothimani, Ramya Haridas and Dean Kuriakose in utter disregard to the House and the authority of this Chair and having been named by the chair …to be suspended from the service of the House for reminder session,” the resolution read.
B Mahtab was chairing the proceedings.
Opposition members in the Lok Sabha had on Thursday held vociferous protests demanding a statement from the government on the Lok Sabha security breach even as Speaker Om Birla asserted that security of the Parliament complex is the responsibility of the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
Blaming the Parliament security breach on an ‘intelligence failure’ by the Centre, Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Thursday demanded a statement from Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the matter, saying that he cannot run away from the situation.
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Published: 14 Dec 2023, 03:19 PM IST