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LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspends 25 MPs, Congress calls it a 'black day for democracy'

| | Aug 03, 2015, at 10:40 pm
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IBNS) With 25 Congress MPs being suspended for five days by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday slammed the move and said the country witnessed a 'black day for democracy'.

"It's a black day for democracy," Gandhi told NDTV.

Mahajan, who has suspended the MPs, told reporters, "It is my duty to see that the Parliament functions normally."

"As the opposition party, they have the right to protest but there is a way to protest here," she said.

Mahajan said taking 'stringent action' is not her character.

Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress also opposed the move of suspending 25 MPs.

AITC quoting party MP  TMC MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay said: "For the greater interest of Parliamentary democracy, we are opposed to suspension of 25 LS MPs. We are not attending LS from tomorrow."

There seems no respite in the ongoing impasse in the Parliament as no work was carried out  for the tenth day on Monday and as many as 25 Congress MPs of the Lok Sabha were suspended by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.

Amid ruckus and continuous protests by the opposition, both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned for the day without any work.
 

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