3 Congress MPs Warned Against Protesting By LS Speaker As Most Oppn Leaders Suspended

Three MPs from Congress party were warned by the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for protesting in the House amid suspension of 143 MPs.

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla warned three Congress MPs ( Image Source :Sansad TV )

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday warned three Conrgress MPs against protesting in the House after over a 100 lawmakers from the opposition parties including Congress were suspended earlier this week. Congress MPs DK Suresh, Deepak Baij and Nakul Nath were warned by the Lok Sabha Speaker in the House as they continued their protest against suspension of MPs from the House. 

They also continued to demand a discussion on the issue of Parliament security breach and a statement by Union home minister Amit Shah

Opposition MPs could be heard raising slogans as the Question Hour was taken up.

Soon after the Question Hour was completed, the Speaker warned the protesting members, and named the Congress MPs. 

"I have not suspended any MP without any reason. You are tearing and throwing papers in the House. MPs are coming to me and asking me to suspend them," the speaker said.

"I don't want to suspend anyone but you bring placards in the House...this is not right," he said.

As many as 143 MPs have been suspended from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha after they stalled the proceedings of the session following the incident of security breach of the Parliament on December 13. Two men had stormed into the Lok Sabha chamber and released smoke from canisters. 

Earlier in the day, opposition parties took a march in protest against the suspensions of MPs from both the Houses. 

The MPs from opposition parties have been demanding a statement from Union home minister Amit Shah on the December 13 Parliament security breach incident. They have been disrupting the proceeding of the house in connection with the same after which as many as 143 MPs have been suspended till now. 

49 Lok Sabha MPs were suspended from the House for disrupting proceedings on Tuesday, a day after 78 opposition members were suspended from Parliament.