Dozens of Delhi congressional leaders and workers marching into Parliament on Monday to protest the new Bills farm were also detained by police. Led by the President of the Delhi Congress, Anil Kumar, the protesters were marching towards the Parliament building, but were stopped on RP Road and detained.
Eight opposition MPs in Rajya Sabha, including TMC leader Derek O’Brien and AAP’s Sanjay Singh, were suspended for the remainder of the Monsoon session on Monday for “rebellious behavior” during the passage of two farm laws. prompting the suspended leaders to withdraw. in an indefinite sit-in inside the Parliament complex. A motion for the suspension of the eight leaders – Rajeev Satav, Syed Nasir Hussain and Ripun Bora (entire Congress), Dola Sen and O’Brien (TMC), KK Ragesh and Elamaram Kareen (both CPM), and Singh, was presented. by the government and approved by voice in the Chamber.
This came after President M Venkaiah Naidu rejected a notice of no confidence motion against Vice President Harivansh as it was not in the proper format and did not give a 14 day notice period. The Monsoon session is scheduled to end on October 1. However, the session is likely to be shortened with several MPs testing positive for the coronavirus. The opponents, objecting to the way in which the two agrarian bills were being approved, had broken into the well of the Chamber on Sunday and when their demand for a vote was not answered, they tore papers, climbed onto the tables, shouted slogans and he allegedly threw the rulebook at Harivansh, who was presiding at the time.
Condemning his behavior, Naidu said Harivansh later informed him that he was “abused with objectionable words” and that he “would have also been hurt.” Opposition parties attacked the government for the suspension of the eight Rajya Sabha MPs and sat down for an “indefinite” protest in the Parliament premises against the measure.
Carrying pillows and blankets at the protest site, the eight MPs shouted slogans and even broke into chant while protesting in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the Parliament complex. “We are not going to give in,” they said. “The suspension will not silence us. We will support the farmers in their fight. The vice president (Rajya Sabha) strangled the parliamentary proceedings on Sunday,” said CPI MP (M) Elamaram Kareem, who is among those suspended.
“The suspension of the MPs exposed the cowardly face of the BJP. People will see through the attempt to divert attention from their undemocratic actions,” he said. The sources said that the suspended members are not allowed to attend House proceedings or meetings of parliamentary committees, but they are not prohibited from entering the Parliament complex and holding a peaceful protest.
Opposition parties such as Congress, CPI (M), Shiv Sena, JDS, TMC, CPI and the Samajwadi Party also protested at the Parliament premises with banners bearing messages such as “Assassination of democracy”, “Death of parliament” and “Shame, shame.” Shortly after Zero Hour, Naidu said he was “pained” by the events during the passage of the Trade in Agricultural Products and Trade (Promotion and Facilitation) Act of 2020, and the Agreement on Guarantee of Prices and Agricultural Services for the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Bill, 2020.
“Is it the parliamentary standard?” He asked and told members to do some introspection. Meanwhile, the government accused opposition leaders of irresponsible conduct in Rajya Sabha during the passage of the farm laws and said they violated the rules by not vacating the House despite being suspended.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the conduct of opposition leaders in the Upper House was “shameful” and “irresponsible”. “We had a clear majority in Rajya Sabha on the agricultural bills,” he said, adding that 110 members supported the bills and just over 70 opposed.
According to government sources, there have been at least ten cases where members have been suspended from Rajya Sabha during the term of governments headed by Congress. Congress called the suspension of the eight MPs “undemocratic” and “unilateral”, and Rahul Gandhi said that “the silencing of democratic India continues to initially silence and then suspend parliamentarians.”
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