30 more MPs suspended from Lok Sabha for remainder of Winter Session

Opposition MPs raise slogans in the Lok Sabha during the Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi on December 18, 2023 | Photo Credit: ANI

As many as 30 Opposition members, including Congress floor leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, were suspended from Lok Sabha on December 18, 2023, days after 14 MPs were suspended for raising slogans demanding a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah over the Parliament security breach.

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The total number of Lok Sabha MPs under suspension in the Winter Session now stands at 43. In addition to these, Derek O’Brien is the sole Rajya Sabha MP to face suspension.

The MPs suspended by the Speaker today were: Kalyan Banerjee, A. Raja, Dayanidhi Maran, Aparupa Poddar, Prasun Banerjee, E.T. Mohammed Basheer, G. Selvam, C.N. Annadurai, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Dr. T. Sumathy, K. Navaskani, Kalanidhi Veeraswamy. N.K. Premachandran, Saugata Roy, Satabdi Roy, Asit Kumar Mal, Kaushalendra Kumar, Anto Antony, S.S. Palanimanickam, Thirunavukkarasar, Pratima Mondal, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, K. Muraleedharan, Sunil Kumar Mondal, S. Ramalingam, K. Suresh, Amar Singh, Rajmohan Unnithan, Gaurav Gogoi, and T.R. Baalu.

Three other MPs have been suspended pending report from the Privileges Committee for “creating disorder in the House”.