Opposition’s march on suspension of MPs: Rahul protested wearing black clothes, said- not being allowed to speak in Parliament

On the issue of suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha MPs, opposition leaders took out a march from Gandhi statue to Vijay Chowk in Parliament today. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi joined in wearing black clothes as a protest. He said that the government is not allowing the opposition to raise questions. MPs have been suspended for almost 2 weeks. He is constantly sitting on dharna. They are not being listened to. The voice of the opposition is being suppressed.

“It has been 14 days since the suspension of opposition MPs. We are not allowed to debate on the issues on which the opposition wants to debate in the house. Where the opposition tries to raise its voice, they are suspended,” Rahul said. There are three-four such issues, which the government does not even want to name.

Opposition MPs march from Parliament to Vijay Chowk to demand withdrawal of suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha MPs.

Rahul said- it has been 13 days for the PM to come in the house.
He said that the Prime Minister does not come to the House. It has been 13 days since the PM came to the House. Amidst the uproar, bills are being passed one after the other in the Parliament. There is no debate on these bills. This is not the way to run Parliament. This is the murder of democracy.

All opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi, Sanjay Raut joined the protest march.

Congress 6; 6 MPs of TMC, Shiv Sena and Left
Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh announced the names of the suspended MPs. These include 6 Congress MPs: Phulo Devi Netam, Chhaya Verma, Ripun Bora, Rajmani Patel, Syed Nasir Hussain, Akhilesh Prasad Singh. Dola Sen and Shanta Chhetri have been suspended from Mamata Banerjee’s party TMC.

Apart from this, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Anil Desai are included from Shiv Sena. At the same time, CPM’s Elaram Karim and CPI’s Binoy Viswam are also included in the list of suspended MPs.

What happened on August 11?

On the last day of the monsoon session of Parliament (on August 11), 12 opposition MPs of Rajya Sabha have been suspended for the entire winter session for misbehaving with the security forces. On August 11, during the discussion on the Insurance Bill, there was a lot of uproar in the Rajya Sabha. Inside the parliament, there was a fierce tussle between the female and male MPs and marshals of the opposition.

On the uproar, Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu had said that whatever has happened in the House has defiled the temple of democracy. On the other hand, the opposition said that if any attempt is made to pass the bill, then there will be consequences. Along with this, the opposition had also accused of misbehavior with women MPs. The opposition had also submitted a memorandum to Vice President Venkaiah Naidu regarding this.