19 Rajya Sabha MPs including Sushmita Dev suspended for the week for ‘unruly behaviour’

July 26: A day after Lok Sabha Speaker Om Prakash Birla took action against four Congress MPs, 19 opposition MPs were suspended from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday for the remaining part of the week. The 19 Rajya Sabha MPs suspended during the day for protesting in the well of the house are from the Trinamool Congress, the DMK, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the CPI and the TRS.

Sushmita Dev, Mausam Noor, Dr Santanu Sen, Dola Sen, Santanu Sen, Nadimal Haque, Abhi Ranjan Biswas, and Shanta Chhetri are the Trinamool Congress MPs who have been suspended. A.A Rahim of the CPI-M, Mohammad Abdullah of Left, and the DMK’s Kanimozhi are also among those barred. Other DMK leaders who are in the list are: M. Mohamed Abdulla, Kalyanasundaram, NR Elango, and M Shanmugam.

On Monday, four Congress MPs were suspended from Lok Sabha for the rest of the Monsoon Session over their ‘unruly behaviour’. The MPs – Manickam Tagore, TN Prathapan, Jothimani and Ramya Haridas – were suspended after a resolution was passed in the Lok Sabha.

Ever since the monsoon session started last week, opposition protests have been going on over various issues – primarily inflation and rise in the price of essential commodities. However, ahead of the start of the monsoon session, an advisory was put out, which barred sloganeering, demonstrations, and use of placards in the premises of Parliament.