The total number of suspended Members of Parliament from Opposition parties have risen to 143 after two more MPs were removed on Wednesday from the Lok Sabha for holding placards inside the Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the INDIA alliance has decided to hold a protest across the country on 22 December against the suspensions, this was announced by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge after the 4th meeting of INDIA parties at New Delhi.
The Opposition are demanding that the Union Home Minister make a statement inside the Parliament on 13th December’s intrusion for which six persons have been booked under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. They are also question why the government has not taken action on the BJP MP from Mysore who issued the intruders passes to the visitors’ gallery in the Lok Sabha.
Earlier on Wednesday, Kharge had stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP want to establish a “Single party rule” in the country and had “snatched away the democratic rights of MPs”.
The Opposition leaders staged a protest against the suspension of MPs outside the Parliament where the women MPs of the BJP had earlier held a protest of their own demanding an apology from Trinamool Congress’ Kalyan Banerjee for mimicking Vice President and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Jagdeep Dhankhar.
President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had also condemned the mimicry on X.
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh, in retaliation, stated “the entire Modi ecosystem now being galvanised on the so-called mimicry non-issue, while it remains silent on the real issue of why and how a BJP MP from Mysuru facilitated entry of two intruders into Lok Sabha on December 13th — who are now charged under the anti-terror law UAPA.”
On the statement of VP Dhankhar that Banerjee had “not just an insult to a farmer and a community, it is an insult to the office of the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha,” Kharge said that the job of the Chairman is to provide security to the MPs inside the House and advised against provoking people by talking about casteism in the House.
“I am also not allowed to speak in the House, so should I also say that I am not being allowed to speak because I am a Dalit,” the Congress President said.
Congress General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala also stated “The dignity of the post does not come from caste but from the sense of duty.”
Banerjee on Wednesday said on X that he has the highest personal regards for Dhankhar and had no intention to hurt him. I have great respect for all Constitutional posts, the TMC MP said.
