Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has asserted that the mass suspension of the Opposition MPs from both Houses of Parliament during the Winter Session seems to be "predetermined and premeditated by" the BJP-led government at the Centre.
Briefing newspersons on the Winter Session of Parliament which concluded on Thursday night, he said, "They themselves came and said to suspend them. Congress Party has such a low-level strategy."
Speaking at a ‘Save Democracy’ protest at Jantar Mantar, the Congress leader said, “They are those who call themselves patriots… ‘Hawa nikal gayi unki…’ (Their bravado had gone into the thin air…) We saw it all.”
The move is aimed at making Himachal Pradesh self-reliant, says Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu
The monsoon session to commence from December 19, will end on December 23 and there will be five sittings
The motion for the suspension of MPs was moved by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi.
After the peaceful start of its Winter Session, Parliament was last week jolted by an incident which none could have imagined when two young men jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from its first floor public gallery on Wednesday afternoon while members were making Zero Hour submissions.
Earlier in the morning Hours, both the Houses were adjourned till 2 pm within minutes of convening the session due to similar ruckus created by the Opposition leaders.
Fourteen of the MPs suspended were from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha member suspended was leader of the Trinamul Congress Derek O’Brien.
Referring to election results, the DMK MP had said used unparliamentory word to describe the Hindi heartland states.
