SEASON OF SUSPENSIONS: Another 49 MPs from Oppn side suspended in LokSabha for disrupting House proceedings

 In an unprecedented standoff in Parliament, a total 141 members have been suspended, including 49 fresh suspensions that took place today

Outlook,19 DEC 2023 : It is raining suspensions in Parliament with another set of 49 MPs getting sacked from Lok Sabha on Tuesday. This comes a day after the unprecedented move of suspension of 78 opposition Members of Parliament.

Supriya Sule, Farooq Abdullah, Shashi Tharoor, Karti Chidambaram and Dimple Yadav are said to be among the 49 MPs who have been suspended from Lok Sabha today, reports said.

Reacting to the fresh suspensions, including his own, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday, "...It is clear that they want an Opposition-mukt Lok Sabha and they will do something similar in Rajya Sabha. At this point, unfortunately, we have to start writing obituaries for Parliamentary democracy in India...Today, in solidarity with my colleagues, I too joined the protest and everybody who was present has been suspended for the rest of the session which means they want to pass their Bills without any discussion. I think it is a betrayal of Parliamentary democracy..."

Monday's action took the total number of opposition MPs suspended from both houses to 92 since last Thursday on the issue of Parliament security breach. 

As many as 33 members were suspended from the Lok Sabha followed by the Rajya Sabha where 45 leaders were handed suspension after Opposition refused to budge on their demand for a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah over the breach incident in Parliament security that took place on December 13.

On December 13, two protesters jumped into the lower house chamber and opened smoke cans when proceedings were on.

Congress on Tuesday said it is truly ironical that the BJP MP "who helped the two intruders" gain entry to the Lok Sabha on December 13 continues to be an MP, while INDIA bloc MPs demanding a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah over the issue have been suspended from Parliament.

The suspension of 78 opposition MPs sparked massive outrage from the Congress and other parties that accused the BJP government of trying to bulldoze key legislations in an "Opposition-less" Parliament.

PM Modi Slams Opposition

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at opposition parties for their protests in Parliament during a BJP parliamentary party address on Tuesday. PM Modi said that conduct of Opposition parties would lead to a decrease in their numbers in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, adding that the BJP would gain in strength.

Expressing his concern, PM Modi addressed what he deemed as "attempts" to justify the Parliament security breach, describing them as worrisome. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi conveyed the Prime Minister's remarks to reporters.

Full List of Suspended MPs

Today's action has taken the total number of opposition MPs suspended from both houses to 141 (49 today + 92 till yesterday evening). AAP member Sanjay Singh has been suspended as a Rajya Sabha member from July 24.

On Thursday, the Lok Sabha suspended 13 members for the remaining part of the Winter Session for waving placards and disrupting proceedings over the Parliament security breach issue.  Trinamool member Derek O'Brien was suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remainder of the Winter Session for "unruly" behaviour.

Here's the full list of suspended MPs:

LOK SABHA:

1. V Vaithilingam

2. Gurjeet Singh

3. Supriya Sule

4. SS Palanimanickam

5. Adoor Prakash

6. Abdul Samad

7. Manish Tewari

8. Pradyut bordoloi

9. Girdhari Yadav

10. Gita kora

11. Franscisco Saradina

12. S Jagatrakshakan

13. SR Parthiban

14. Farooq Abdullah

15. Jyotsana Mahant

16. A Ganeshamurthi

17. Mala Roy

18. P Velusamy

19. A Chellakumar

20. Shashi tharoor

21. Karti Chidambaram

22. Sudip Bandopadhyay

23. Dimple Yadav

24. Hasnanin Masoodi

25. Danish Ali

26. Khalilur Rahman

27. Rajiv Ranjan Singh

28. DNV. Senthil kumar

29. Santhosh kumar

30. Dulal Chandra Goswami

31. Ravneet singh Bittu

32. Dinesh Yadav

33. K Sudhakaran

34. Mohd Sadiq

35. MK. Vishnuprasad

36. PP Mohd Faizal

37. Sajda Ahmad

38. Jasveer Singh Gill

39. Mahabali Singh

40. Amol Kolhe

41. Sushil Kumar Rinku

42. Sunil Kumar Singh

43. SD Hassan

44. M. Danushkumar

45. Pratibha Singh

46. Thol Thirumalavan

47. Chandreshwar Prasad

48. Alok Kumar Suman

49. Dileshwar Kamet

50. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

51. Gaurav Gogoi

52. K Suresh 

53. Manickam Tagore

54. Rajamohan Unnithan

55. Su. Thirunavukkarasar

56. K Muraleedharan

57. Anto Antony

58. Amar Singh

59. Aparupa Poddar

60. Prasun Banerjee

61. Sougata Ray

62. Satabdi Ray

63. Protima Mondal

64. Kalyan Banerjee

65. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar

66. Asit Kumar Mal

67. Sunil Kumar Mondal

68. TR Baalu

69. PR Natarajan

70. ET Mohammed Basheer

71. NK Premachandran

72. A Raja

73. Dayanidhi Maran

74. T Sumathy 

75. K Navas Kani DMK

76. Kalanidhi Veerasamy DMK

77. C N Annadurai - DMK

78. S S Palanimanickam - DMK

79. G Selvam - DMK

80. S Ramalingam - DMK

81. Kaushalendra Kumar (JD-U)

82. TN Prathipan 

83. Hibi Eden 

84. S. Jothimani 

85. Ramya Haridas 

86. Dean Kuriakose

87. VK Sreekandan 

88. Benny Behanan 

89. Mohammed Jawaid

90. S. Venkatesan

91. K Subbarayan 

92. Vijay Vasanth

93. K Jayakumar

94. K Veeraswamy

95. Abdul Khaleque

RAJYA SABHA

1. Pramod Tiwari - Congress 

2. Jairam Ramesh - Congress 

3. Amee Yajnik - Congress 

4. Naranbhai J Rathwa - Congress 

5. Syed Nasir Hussain - Congress 

6. Shrimati Phulo Devi Netam - Congress 

7. Shaktisinh  Gohil - Congress 

8. KC Venugopal -  Congress

9. Rajani Ashokrao Patil - Congress 

10. Ranjeet Ranjan - Congress 

11. Imran Pratapgarhi - Congress 

12. Randeep Singh Surjewala - Congress 

13. Sukhendu Sekhar Ray - TMC 

14. Mohammed Nadimul Haque - TMC  

15. Abir Ranjan Biswas - TMC  

16. Santanu Sen - TMC  

17. Mausam Noor - TMC  

18. Prakash Chik Baraik - TMC  

19. Samirul Islam - TMC 

20. Derek O'Brien - TMC

21. M Shanmugam - DMK

22. NR Elango - DMK 

23. Kanimozhi NVN Somu - DMK 

24. R. Girirajan DMK 

25. Manoj Kumar Jha - RJD 

26. Faiyaz Ahmad - RJD 

27. V Sivadasan - CPI-M 

28. Ram Nath Thakur - JD-U

29. Aneel Prasad Hegde - JD-U

30. Vandana  Chavan - NCP 

31. Ram Gopal Yadav - SP 

32. Javed Ali Khan - SP 

33. Mahua Maji - JMM 

34. Jose K Mani - KC-M and 

35. Ajit Kumar Bhuyan - IND

Besides the above, there are 11 opposition members who have been suspended from Rajya Sabha and whose names have been referred to the privileges committee:

1. Jebi Mather Hisham

2. L Hanumanthaiah 

3. Neeraj Dangi 

4. Rajmani Patel

5. Kumar Ketkar

6. G. C. Chandrashekhar

7. Binoy Viswam

8. Sandosh Kumar P

9. Mohamed Abdulla

10. John Brittas

11. A A Rahim

Opposition's INDIA bloc has 95 MPs in Rajya Sabha of which 45 were suspended on Monday. Another MP, AAP's Sanjay Singh, is behind bars in the Delhi liquor policy case and already stands suspended.

In Lok Sabha, Opposition has a total strength of 133 MPs of whom 49 have been suspended today, 33 were suspended on Monday while 13 were suspended last week.