Nineteen Members of Parliament (MPs) were on Tuesday suspended from attending Rajya Sabha session for the remainder of the week for disrupting the House proceedings and demanding a discussion on price rise and a rollback of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on daily essentials.
The suspended MPs are seven from Trinamool Congress (TMC), six from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), three from Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and two from Communist Party of India (Marxist) and one from Communist Party of India (CPI). Later, the House was adjourned for the day as the Chair appealed the suspended MPs to withdraw from the House, but they continued to remain in the well of the House.
This is the highest number of single batch suspension and follows the suspension of four Congress MPs in Lok Sabha on Monday for the rest of the monsoon session. In November last year, 12 MPs from Opposition parties were suspended for the entire winter session in Rajya Sabha.
