14 MPs suspended from Parliament for wanting debate on security breach
As many as 14 MPs from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were suspended on Thursday, December 14 from the rest of the winter session for “unruly conduct” in Parliament. The reason behind the “unruly conduct”, however, was simply their raising their voices to force the government to hold a debate on and answer questions regarding the massive breach of security in the Lok Sabha a day earlier.
On December 13, two men had jumped from the visitors’ gallery into the MP’s seating area in the House of the People, carrying smoke bombs emanating yellow smoke.
The 14 include nine from the Congress, two from the CPI(M) and one each from the DMK, Trinamool Congress and CPI. Derek O’Brien from Trinamool was the only Rajya Sabha MP to get suspended.
Among the others are Manickam Tagore, Kanimozhi, VK Sreekandan, Mohammed Jawes, Benny Bahanan, K Subramanyam, PR Natrajan and S Venkatesan.
The government is bent on adopting any means necessary to avoid answering in Parliament to a failure it should be held responsible for.
The Opposition parties have been demanding a statement from the Home Minister on the security lapse and questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on the issue. They have also demanded action against BJP MP Prathap Simha, who had recommended the passes for the two intruders.
Mallikarjun Kharge of the Congress, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, in a post on X, asked if it was a “crime” to ask Home Minister Amit Shah to make a statement and claimed that the suspension had “draconian shades of dictatorship”.
