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Eight Congress MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha for the remainder of the Budget session after they allegedly tore papers and threw them at the speaker’s chair. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju moved the resolution, which was adopted by the House.
The suspended MPs are Hibi Eden, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Manickam Tagore, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy, Prashant Padole, S Venkataraman and Dean Kuriakose. The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day amid a ruckus.
The protest by the Opposition followed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi being prevented from quoting an excerpt from former Army chief Manoj Mukund Naravane’s unpublished memoir about the political decision-making during the 2020 border tensions between India and China, during the debate in the House.
Congress MPs protested after the chair called on other members to speak before Gandhi had completed his speech. Read on.
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi asked in the Lok Sabha why he was being stopped from discussing the excerpt from Naravane’s unpublished book. Gandhi said that he was willing to not quote a magazine article about the excerpts, but added that he should be allowed to speak about its contents that are related to national security.
Accusing Gandhi of misleading the Lok Sabha, Rijiju said that Gandhi cannot again quote the...