Three Congress MPs Deepak Baij, Nakul Nath, DK Suresh were suspended from Lok Sabha on Thursday, taking the total number of suspended Opposition MPs from Parliament to 146.
Over 140 Opposition MPs have been suspended since December 14 for causing disruptions to the functioning of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and raising slogans while demanding a statement from Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the December 13 Parliament security breach.
The session, which began on December 4, saw 14 MPs being suspended on December 14, another 78 on Monday, and 49 on Tuesday and now two more today.
On Thursday, INDIA bloc MPs on Thursday marched from Parliament to Vijay Chowk in Delhi to protest the suspension of opposition lawmakers, with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had violated parliamentary privilege by not speaking on the security breach issue inside the House.
Notably, after the suspension of MPs, the Parliament today passed the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Bill, 2023.
This bill seeks to establish a mechanism to appoint the chief election commissioner and election commissioners.
The Parliament also passed a bill that seeks to allow the government to temporarily take control of telecom services in the interest of national security, and provide a non-auction route for the allocation of satellite spectrum.
Source: India Today