AAP's Sanjay Singh 24th MP to be suspended from Parliament

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 27

Moments after Rajya Sabha adopted a motion on Wednesday to suspend AAP's Sanjay Singh for the remaining week making him the 24th MP in both Houses to be suspended for "unruly conduct", Opposition veterans petitioned RS chairman M Venkaiah Naidu to revoke the action.

Naidu is, however, learnt to have told the leaders that erring MPs would have to express regret for their suspensions to be revoked.

In Lok Sabha, too, where pre-lunch proceedings were washed out due to Opposition disruptions as in the Upper House, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi asked for a similar regret for the government to bring a motion revoking suspensions of four Congress members.

Joshi's comments came after NCP, TMC and DMK urged revocation of the suspensions.

"What is the guarantee they (the erring MPs) will not storm the Well again and not flash placards at the chair," Joshi asked in Lok Sabha after NCP's Supriya Sule said the government should bring a motion to revoke suspensions adding that the Opposition wanted the House to run.

In Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge and KC Venugopal of the Congress, Ram Gopal Yadav (SP), Derek O'Brien (TMC), Tiruchi Siva (DMK), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena), Elamaram Kareem (CPM), Binoy Viswam (CPI), Suresh Reddy (TRS) and Vaiko (MDMK) met Naidu in his chamber after Sanjay Singh was suspended following the naming by Deputy Chairman Hari Vansh.

The leaders cited a large number of suspensions in Rajya Sabha (20 including Sanjay Singh) to seek the revocation and enable debate.

Sources said Naidu told leaders that naming and suspensions were the last resort to preserve dignity of the House.

Naidu is also learnt to have mentioned that 63 Lok Sabha MPs were suspended in 1989 and 25 in 2015 for "persistently violating rules and disrupting the proceedings."

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