49 Lok Sabha MPs suspended for allegedly disrupting House proceedings

Continuing actions taken on Monday, at least 49 more Lok Sabha Members of Parliament (MPs) were suspended on Tuesday for disrupting House proceedings. The MPs suspended include Farooq Abdullah, and senior Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tewari.

The Lok Sabha suspended 33 Opposition leaders on Monday, which included Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, DMK's T R Baalu, and Trinamool Congress's Sougata Ray, for exhibiting placards and vocalizing slogans regarding the Parliament security breach matter.

Proceedings were previously suspended until 12:30 pm following protests by opposition members demanding a statement from Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the Parliament security breach and revocation of the suspension of MPs.


News agency PTI reported that certain Opposition members stood up and some moved towards the center of the House while chanting slogans against the government and displaying placards. Among them, a few carried an altered image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


Speaker Om Birla said it was completely against the rules, regulations and proprieties to bring placards into the House.

"This House belongs to you. We all have decided that no one will bring placards inside the House. But you have come here with placards. Even you have come to the podium. Is it correct? Please go back to your seat. I am giving you a last warning," he said.

However, the opposition members ignored Birla's pleas and continued their protests leading to the adjournment of the proceedings.

In a major security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack last Wednesday, two men -- Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D -- jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour, released coloured smoke and shouted slogans, before being overpowered by the MPs.