Monsoon Session: Suspension Of Congress LS MPs Revoked, Speaker Om Birla Warns Against Bringing Placards

With the motion passed in Lok Sabha, the suspension of four Congress LS members -- Manickam Tagore, Ramya Haridas, Jothimani, and TN Prathapan -- has been revoked.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla conducts proceedings in the House during ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.

Source : ANI | PTI

New Delhi: The motion to remove the suspension of Members of Parliment was in passed in Lok Sabha on Monday with Speaker Om Birla warning that he will strictly enforce rules if placards are displayed in the House again.

"I'll request all the parties in the house that placards should not be brought inside the house. If at all placards are brought by MPs, then I will listen neither to the government nor to the Opposition and will surely take action. I am giving last chance to them": Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said, as quoted by news agency ANI.

With this, the suspension of four Congress Lok Sabha members -- Manickam Tagore, Ramya Haridas, Jothimani, and TN Prathapan -- has been revoked and the deadlock over the issue ends in the Lower House.

As per ANI, a meeting was held at the office of the Lok Sabha Speaker over the stalemate in the Lower House. Om Birla called floor leaders of all parties to the meeting to discuss the revocation of suspension of MPs.

Opposition Running From Discussion: Piyush Goyal

Earlier, Union minister Piyush Goyal had said that "either Opposition MPs should express regret about whatever they have done or their leader should ensure that they won't bring placards which are against the rules. In that case, the government is ready to move the motion to revoke the suspension of MPs."

He also stated that the government already decided that "the issue of price rise will be discussed on Monday in LS and on Tuesday in RS, despite that house wasn't allowed to run." "They (Opposition) are running from discussing the issue," Piyush Goyal claimed.

According to him, while the government was ready to discuss inflation from the first day, the Opposition was not allowing the house to function normally. "Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had COVID. Since she had come back, we are appealing to them for the house to function normally," he said.

We have many bills to pass but unfortunately, the house is getting adjourned, Union minister Pralhad Joshi stressed, as reported by ANI.

As the deadlock ends, the discussion over inflation has begun in the Lower House.

Oppn MPs Suspended From House Over 'Misconduct'

A total of 24 Opposition parliamentarians – 20 from the Rajya Sabha and four from the Lok Sabha – were suspended for their 'misconduct' in Parliament.

Besides the four Congress MPs, the members suspended from the Parliament for the rest of the session include seven MPs from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), six from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), three from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), two from the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M), and one each from the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).