We stand with each one of our suspended MPs: Rahul Gandhi

Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said 'truth' cannot be silenced.

"The Modi Govt will soon understand that truth cannot be silenced.The ppl of India & Congress Party have shown this in case of land bill," Rahul Gandhi's official Twitter handle Office of RG posted quoting the leader.

"Truth will not be silenced in the case of corruption scams either where the Prime Minister is protecting the guilty. We stand with each one of our suspended MPs," he said.

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," Sonia Gandhi earlier told media.

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.