Opposition parties are likely to bring a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, a top source in Congress told ABP Live. The source said the no-confidence motion against Birla is likely to be tabled in Lok Sabha on Monday for being biased in the House.
The proposal was made in a meeting of Congress MPs. Congress is talking to other Opposition parties in this regard.
The development comes days after the Lok Sabha Secretariat disqualified Rahul Gandhi as MP after the Congress leader was convicted and sent to jail in a 2019 defamation case by a Surat court. He has also been asked to vacate the government bungalow allotted to him.
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The disqualification will bar Rahul Gandhi, a four-time MP, from contesting elections for eight years unless a higher court stays his conviction.
The Budget session of Parliament has seen repeated disruptions over the Opposition's call for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani-Hindenburg row.
On Monday, Congress MPs wore black and threw sheets and scraps of paper at the Speaker's Chair in protest against Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the House. After the Speaker left the hall, a banner was also thrown at the Chair.
The Congress has been alleging that mics were being muted in Lok Sabha to silence Opposition demands. On March 17, the Congress shared a clip on Twitter in which the audio in Lok Sabha apparently went silent during Opposition protests shortly after the proceedings began.
"Earlier, the mic used to be turned off, today even the proceedings of the House were muted. The house is mute for PM Modi's friend," the grand old party tweeted in Hindi, in a reference to businessman Gautam Adani.
Earlier this month, Speaker Om Birla rebutted the suggestion that opposition MPs were not being allowed to speak. "In India, we have a robust participatory democracy, and a vibrant multiparty system where hopes and aspirations of the citizens find expression through elected representatives. All members enjoy the freedom to express their views and thoughts in our Parliament," Birla had said at an event.
His remarks were seen as a rebuttal of Rahul Gandhi's comments in the UK, where he told a group of British MPs that microphones of opposition MPs were turned off when they criticise the Modi government.