Two defiant suspended TDP MPs evicted from Lok Sabha

NEW DELHI: In a late night swoop, marshals of Parliament tonight forcibly removed two defiant TDP members of Lok Sabha who were suspended for five days for disrupting the proceedings on the Telangana issue but remained in the House.


M Venugopal Reddy and Nimmala Kristappa were in the Lok Sabha till around 2200 hrs tonight, eight hours after the House was adjourned for the day.

Reddy and Kristappa, along with their two other colleagues K N Rao and Sivaprasad and five Congress MPs A Sai Pratap, Anantha Venkatrami Reddy, N Rajagopal, Magunta Srinivasulu Reddy and K Bapi Raju were suspended at around 11.15 AM by Speaker Meira Kumar for five days for continuously disrupting the House.

As they refused to leave the House hours after the adjournment, about 15-20 marshals removed them physically. They were dropped at Gate no. 1.

TDP leader Nama Nageshwar Rao told PTI that his colleagues were "thrown out". He condemned the action and said he will raise the issue in the Lok Sabha tomorrow.

The action of suspension was taken by the Speaker soon after the House met for the day under Rule 374(A) of Rules of Procedure of the Lok Sabha.

As per the Rule, a member after being named by the Speaker, stands "automatically suspended from the service of the House for five consecutive sittings or the remainder of the session, whichever is less".

The Rule regarding automatic suspension is applied in the event of "grave disorder occasioned by a member coming into the Well of the House or abusing the Rules of the House persistently and willfully obstructing its business by shouting slogans".

This is the first instance when the same members were suspended twice in the same session under the Rule which came into being over a decade back. The previous action was on August 23 for paralysing the House since the current session began on August 5.

Immediately after the action at around 11.15 AM, the Speaker adjourned the House till 2 PM. While other suspended members left the House, the two TDP members continued in the House. The third TDP member Sivaprasad also remained in the Hosue for some time but left in the evening.