More than 70 deputies, including Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, were suspended Monday, December 18 for having disrupted the procedure of the Parliament. While 30 deputies of Lok Sabha were suspended for the rest of the current winter session, three members – Vijay Vasanth, K Jayakumar and Abdul Khaleque – should have faced the suspension pending the report of the Privileges Committee on their conduct.
The Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Congress and Gaurav Gogoi, Tr Baalu, a Raja and Dayanidhi Maran of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), and the leaders of the Trinamool Saugata Roy Congress, Kalyan Banerjee, Kakoli Ghesh Dassidar and Satabdi Roy are among the people suspended from Lokoli Dassidar and Satabdi, reported NDTV.
In Rajya Sabha, 35 members were excluded for the rest of the winter session, while the suspension of 11 opposition deputies will last until the Privileges Committee submits a report.
The deputies of Congress Jairam Ramesh and KC Venugopal, Kanimozhi of DMK and Rashtriya Janata Dal Leader (RJD) Manoj Kumar Jha are among those suspended from the upper room.
Video | “In the dark period of today’s democracy, the suspension is a badge of honor. Why? Because we ask for an official declaration (from the Minister of the Interior)?” said RJD MP @manojkjhadu On the suspension of deputies at Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in the middle of the impose opposition on the center … pic.twitter.com/mujzmfwhuk
– Press Trust of India (@pti_news) December 18, 2023
These are the greatest number of deputies suspended from the two houses to one day so far. Last week, 14 deputies were suspended – 13 of Lok Sabha and one by Rajya Sabha – for the breeding of slogans and disturbed the procedure of the Parliament. From now on, the total number of suspended legislators is 92 during this session.
The legislators asked for a statement from the Minister of the Interior of the Union, Amit Shah, the violation of the security of the Parliament last week.
The mass suspension of deputies in Parliament is not a new development. Let’s take a look when dozens of legislators were suspended earlier.
1989
A total of 63 deputies were suspended from Parliament under the government of the Congress led by Rajiv Gandhi just over three decades. On March 15, 1989, a tumult broke out in Lok Sabha about the commission of inquiry for the Thakkar judge on the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Up to 63 deputies who protested the report were suspended for a week. “A member of the opposition belonging to the Janata group (Syed Shahabuddin) who had not been suspended,” argued that he was also treated as suspended and out of the house. Three other members (GM Banatwalla, Ms. Gill and Shaminder Singh) also went out to protest “,” Indian Express has cited a PRS legislative research report as saying.
2022
Up to 19 deputies requiring an urgent discussion on the price increase and the increase in TPS were suspended at Rajya Sabha for a week on July 26 of last year. It came a day after four Congress deputies were suspended from Lok Sabha for the rest of the session to display signs.
2021
Up to 12 deputies were suspended from Rajya Sabha on the first day of the winter session in November 2021 for “unprecedented acts of misconduct, contemptuous, unruly and violent behavior and intentional attacks against security personnel” Towards the end of the monsoon session in August.
2020
On September 21, eight deputies from Rajya Sabha was suspended for presumed unruly behavior one day before. Those who were prohibited from the upper room included Derek O’Brien from TMC and Dola Sen, Sanjay Singh of AAP, the leaders of the Congress Rajeev Satav, Syed Nazir Hussain and Ripun Bora, and Elamaram Kareem and Kk Ragesh of the CPI-M CPI-M .
The Lok Sabha suspended seven deputies from the congress in March for “coarse misconduct” after having stormed the well and torn off the papers from the speaker’s table. These legislators protest against the remarks of a Rajasthan deputy on COVID-19 who targeted the president of the Congress at the time, Sonia Gandhi.
2019
Lok Sabha president Sumitra Mahajan suspended 45 members over two days in 2019 for having created heckling. First, 24 AIADMK members were suspended for five consecutive sessions. The next day, Mahajan suspended 21 deputies from the AIADMK, the Telugu party of theM (TDP) and the YSR congress, reported Times of India (you).
Other instances
In August 2015, the president of Lok Sabha, Sumitra Mahajan, suspended 25 Congress deputies for five days to “voluntarily obstructing the room and voluntarily”. The legislators transported signs and shouted slogans in the well, calling for the resignation of the Minister of External Affairs of the time, Sushma Swaraj, and the chief minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje, on Lalit Modi Controversy and the SCAMM of Madhya Pradesh cm shivraj singh chouhan above vyapam scam, as as as are by PTI.
The president of Lok Sabha then, Meira Kumar, suspended 18 deputies of Andhra Pradesh for the rest of the session in February 2014 for an unprecedented pandemonium at the house on the Telangana number.
In 2013, 12 members of Andhra Pradesh were suspended from Lok Sabha for five days for having disrupted the procedure when he opposed the formation of the creation of Telangana.
How are deputies suspended?
Rule number 373 of the rules of procedure and the conduct of cases allows the speaker of Lok Sabha to ask a member to “immediately withdraw from the chamber” if he judges his conduct as “roughly disorderly”.
The speaker can invoke the 374A rule which stipulates that “a serious disorder caused by a member entering the house of the house or abusing the rules of the room, constantly and voluntarily obstructing his activities by shouting slogans or otherwise …”. The member concerned, “after being appointed by the speaker, is automatically suspended from the chamber service for five consecutive sessions or the rest of the session, which is the least,” reported Indian Express.
Likewise, the rule number 255 of his rules book allows the president of Rajya Sabha to “direct any member whose conduct is in his roughly disorderly opinion to withdraw immediately” from the room “.
“… Any member thus ordered to withdraw must do so immediately and will be absent during the rest of the day’s meeting.”
The president can “appoint a member who does not take into account the authority of the president or abuse council rules by constantly and voluntarily obstructing” business.
In such a scenario, the upper room can adopt a suspended motion the deputy for a period not exceeding the rest of the session, noted Indian Express.
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