Guwahati News Desk: Six TMC MPs were suspended for the day, by Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday.
The reason behind the suspension was that the six TMC MPs had allegedly carried placards, while protesting along with other opposition MPs over the Pegasus spying issue.
Naidu took exception to the placards, which had anti-government slogans, before adjourning the proceedings of the House till 2 pm.
As per the sources, he first asked the members to go back to their seats, but on not receiving proper response from them, Naidu then threatened to invoke rule 255 against those holding the placards. He ordered by saying, “disobeying the chair and raising placards shall leave the House under rule 255.”
Although, no names were mentioned by Naidu directly at that moment, he did state that the Rajya Sabha Secretariat would be giving the list with the suspended names soon.
Later, a Parliamentary Bulletin identified the six MPs suspended for the day as Dola Sen, Md. Nadimul Haque, Abir Ranjan Biswas, Shanta Chhetri, Arpita Ghosh and Mausam Noor.
The bulletin said, “These members of the Rajya Sabha who entered the well of the House displayed placards, disobeyed the Chair and whose conduct was grossly disorderly in the House this morning (August 4, 2021) have been directed to withdraw immediately from the Council under rule 255 by the Chairman.”
The bulletin further informed that the six MPs “shall absent themselves during the remainder of the day’s meeting.”