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MPs suspended from Lok Sabha: Kiren Rijiju slams Congress

| | Jul 25, 2017, at 12:24 am
New Delhi, July 24 (IBNS): Union Minister Kiren Rijiju attacked the Congress party after its six lawmakers were suspended from the Lok Sabha for five days for their "highly unbecoming conduct".

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspended the lawmakers after they tore  official papers and threw them at the chair and disrupted proceedings when the House was  discussing the Bofors case and the recent incidents of mob lynching and cow vigilantism.

Reacting to the episode, the Minister tweeted: "कांग्रेस पार्टी के साथ क्या करूं
Why can't Congress Party discuss & debate in a civilised manner?"

A united opposition decided to stage a dharna on Tuesday in protest against the Speaker's order.

Mahajan said she was constrained to bar for five days the MPs - Gaurav Gogoi, K Suresh, Adhir Rajan Chowdhury, Ranjeet Ranjan, Sushmita Dev and M K Raghavan- for "undermining the chair's dignity."

"The entire country should watch this...Show it, let them watch," the Speaker said.

. Opposition members trooped into the well shouting slogans and flung pieces of paper toward the treasury benches and the House chair. In condemnation, the treasury benches to shout "shame, shame".

Congress president Sonia Gandhi was in the House.

She later met other opposition leaders in her office and they announced a sit-in in front of Mahatama Gandhi's statue in Parliament house on Tuesday in protest against the suspension.

 

Image: twitter.com/KirenRijiju

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