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# 23 MPs suspended, the highest in recent history
# Mention of ‘displayed placards’ comes for the first time in the motion
Three members of Rajya Sabha, AAP’s Sushil Kumar Gupta and Sandeep Kumar Pathak and Assam independent member Ajit Kumar Bhuyan, were suspended for the rest of the week from the Upper House.
This took the total number of Opposition MPs suspended this session to 23 which is highest in recent history. This was also for the first time that the act of “…displayed placards this morning” was mentioned in the motion moved for their suspension.
“That this House having taken a serious note of the misconduct of Sushil Kumar Gupta, Sandeep Kumar Pathak and Ajit Kumar Bhuyan who have entered the Well of the House, shouted slogans and displayed placards this morning, thereby disrupting the proceedings of the House…Members, be suspended from the service of the Council for the remainder of the current week under Rule 256,” stated the motion.
Earlier this week, four Congress MPs were suspended from Lok Sabha. Action came even as suspended MPs continued sitting on dharna within Parliament House premises, accusing the government of throttling the voice of the Opposition.
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On Wednesday 6 TMC MPs were suspended from the Rajya Sabha after they created ruckus in the morning over the Pegasus spying issue. Six MPs — Dola Sen, Md. Nadimul Haque, Abir Ranjan Biswas, Shanta Chhetri, Arpita Ghosh, Mausam Noor — had entered the well of the Upper House, displayed placards and disobeyed the Chair, the official notice said.
