The Lok Sabha was on Tuesday adjourned until 3 pm to enable MPs to participate in the inauguration of India’s 14th President.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the House after again rejecting Congress’s adjournment of Question Hour notice to discuss lynching deaths in the country. The notice by Mallikarjun Kharge of the Congress sought immediate suspension of all House to debate mob violence. The same notice was declined on Monday and led to massive disruptions in the House leading to the suspension of six Congress members for misconduct.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, Opposition parties held a protest outside Gandhi statue in Parliament to oppose the suspension of six Congress members from Lok Sabha on Monday on account of grave misconduct.
Congress, TMC, Left members participated in the protest asking for the return of suspended MPs to the House.
The Congress was represented by Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Ghulam Nabi Azad among others. Sonia Gandhi wasn’t present.
Opposition parties said they wanted a debate on lynching deaths and the Lok Sabha Speaker was denying them the chance.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, however, has asked the opposition to give notices for a short-duration discussion in the matter and said rules don’t permit the suspension of Question Hour, the sole parliamentary tool available to MPs to hold the government accountable for their policies.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the House after again rejecting Congress’s adjournment of Question Hour notice to discuss lynching deaths in the country. The notice by Mallikarjun Kharge of the Congress sought immediate suspension of all House to debate mob violence. The same notice was declined on Monday and led to massive disruptions in the House leading to the suspension of six Congress members for misconduct.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, Opposition parties held a protest outside Gandhi statue in Parliament to oppose the suspension of six Congress members from Lok Sabha on Monday on account of grave misconduct.
Congress, TMC, Left members participated in the protest asking for the return of suspended MPs to the House.
The Congress was represented by Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Ghulam Nabi Azad among others. Sonia Gandhi wasn’t present.
Opposition parties said they wanted a debate on lynching deaths and the Lok Sabha Speaker was denying them the chance.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, however, has asked the opposition to give notices for a short-duration discussion in the matter and said rules don’t permit the suspension of Question Hour, the sole parliamentary tool available to MPs to hold the government accountable for their policies.
