More MPs Suspended from Parliament Today; Opposition Parties to Meet Today

India Alliance Meet LIVE Updates: In the backdrop of mass suspensions of MPs from the Parliament for the second consecutive day on Tuesday, 19 December, parties of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc are scheduled to meet for its fourth meeting in New Delhi.

The meeting will have the attendance of most senior leaders including Sharad Pawar (NCP), Mamata Banerjee (TMC), Lalu Yadav (RJD), Nitish Kumar (JD(U)), Sonia Gandhi (Congress), Rahul Gandhi (Congress), Mallikarjun Kharge (Congress), Arvind Kejriwal (AAP), MK Stalin (DMK), and Akhilesh Yadav (Samajwadi Party).

A day after the suspension of 92 MPs from the Parliament for the remaining period of the Winter Session, 49 more MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

After todays’ suspensions, 95 MPs stand suspended from the Lok Sabha while 46 MPs stand suspended from the Rajya Sabha, taking the total tally of MPs suspended from the Parliament to 141.

Watch the suspension proceedings here:

• The meeting, which was earlier scheduled to take place on 6 December, was postponed to the third week of this month.

• This is the INDIA bloc’s first meeting after the results of five state elections were declared, in which Congress won in Telangana while the BJP managed to win in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh.

• Opposition MPs staged protests in the Parliament premises over the suspension of MPs from the Parliament.

• Some of the MPs suspended on Tuesday include Supriya Sule (NCP), Farooq Abdullah (JKNC), Danish Ali (Ex-BSP), Manish Tewari (Congress), Karti Chidambaram (Congress), Shashi Tharoor (Congress), Sudip Bandhopadhyay (TMC ), Sushil Kumar Rinku (AAP), and Dimple Yadav (Samajwadi Party).

JD(U) chief and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar arrives for INDIA meet.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav arrive for the INDIA alliance meet.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav arrives for the INDIA Alliance meeting in Delhi.

PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti arrived in Delhi ahead of the INDIA Alliance meeting.

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray met West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in Delhi ahead of the INDIA bloc meet.

Aaditya Thackeray and Sanjay Raut were also present.

“This is going to resemble the North Korean Assembly. This is going to be a token house,” Congress MP Karti Chidambaram told PTI.

Suspended MP Manish Tewari said that the government has delegitimised the Parliament by suspending 141 MPs.

“This is done for passing draconian laws and to turn this country to a police state,” he told ANI.

Political row has erupted after a video of TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee mocking Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar at the protest of Opposition MPs went viral on Tuesday.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is also being targeted for recording the video.

While Dhakhar earlier called the video “unfortunate”, he slammed the Congress party for sharing the video on its social media handles.

“The video was shared on Instagram before it was taken down. Your party has shared it from official handles,” Dhankhar told P Chidambaram after the House convened at 2:00 pm.

“”This is an example of how the opposition is sabotaging parliamentary democracy. TMC leader Kalyan Banerjee is mocking the Vice President in the Parliament premises, and Rahul Gandhi is recording the video; nothing can be more unfortunate than this,” BJP MP Rakesh Sinha told PTI.

1. V. Vaithilingam
2. Gurjeet Singh Aujla
3. Supriya Sule
4. Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
5. Adoor Prakash
6. Abdul Samad
7. Manish Tewari
8. Pradyut Bordoloi
9. Girdhari Yadav
10. Geeta Koda
11. Francisco Sardinha
12. S. Jagathrakshakan
13. SR Parthiban
14. Farooq Abdullah
15. Jyotsna Mahant
16. A. Ganesha Moorthy
17. Mala Roy
18. P. Velusamy
19. Chander Kumar ((cross check))
20. Shashi Tharoor
21. Karti Chidambaram
22. Sudip Bandyopadhyay
23. Dimple Yadav
24. Hasnain Masoodi
25. Danish Ali
26. Khalilur Rahaman
27.Rajiv Ranjan Singh
28. Senthil Kumar
29. Santosh Kumar
30. Dulal Chandra Goswami
31. Ravneet Singh Bittu
32. Dinesh Yadav
33. K Sudhakaran
34. Mohd Sadiq
35. MK Prasad
36. PP Mohd Faizal
37. Sajda Ahmed
38. Jasveer Singh Gill
39. Amol coal
40. Sushil Kumar Rinku
41. Sunil Kumar Singh
42. Dr ST Hasan
43.M Dhanush Kumar
44. Pratibha Singh
45. Thol. Thirumavalavan
46. ​​Chandrashwar Prasad
47. Alok Kumar Suman
48. Dileshwar Kamait
49. Adur Prakash

Suspended MP danish Ali asked how asking questions to the government qualify as violation of parliamentary decorum?

“It wasn’t violated when abuses were hurled in the House, that MP (Ramesh Bidhuri) was neither suspended nor was any action taken against him. No action was taken against the BJP on whose pass the attackers entered the House. PM and HM don’t make any statements. I don’t understand when did asking questions to the government qualify to be a violation,” he said.

“This is nothing but anarchy being played out in the Parliament. They don’t have an iota of faith in the Parliamentary system,” Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury told news agency ANI.

Posters come up in Patna, Bihar demanding Nitish Kumar be made the PM face of the alliance ahead of INDIA bloc’s meeting in Delhi today.

“Those speaking the truth and asking questions have been suspended from the House today. The public is seeing the kind of dirty politics happening in the Parliament,” AAP Lok Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Rinku told ANI his suspension from the House for Winter session.

“We were just asking for a reply (from the government on Parliament security breach incident) and a discussion in the House. This is an important issue but the government is running away from a discussion on it,” NCP MP Supriya Sule told ANI.

A day after the suspension of 92 MPs from the Parliament for the remaining period of the Winter Session, 49 more MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, 19 December.

Some of the MPs suspended on Tuesday include Supriya Sule (NCP), Farooq Abdullah (JKNC), Danish Ali (Independent), Manish Tewari (Congress), Karti Chidambaram (Congress), and Dimple Yadav (SP).

Floor leaders of INDIA alliance parties met in the chamber of Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge in Parliament.

Addressing the media, AAP MP Raghav Chadha called the suspension of MPs a black day in India’s democracy.

“If BJP is scared of anyone, it is Arvind Kejriwal…On the suspension of MPs, I would say that it is a black day in India’s democracy. I would not say that some MPs were suspended but democracy has been suspended,” he said.

Opposition MPs protest at Parliament’s entrance.

NCP leader Sharad Pawar, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, and other Opposition MPs stage protest in front of Gandhi Statue in Parliament premises over the suspension of 92 MPs from both Houses.

“Modi-Shah have insulted the dignity of the House. Despite serious security lapses, he does not come to Parliament and give any statement. I am very sad that for the first time in history, so many MPs have been suspended. This is like flouting democracy and is a deep insult to the dignity of the House,” Kharge said.

On suspension of 92 Opposition MPs, Congress MP AR Chowdhury said that whenever a matter related to national security is raised, the BJP avoids discussion.

“We had a simple demand that Amit Shah makes a statement in Parliament,” he told ANI.

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi told news agency ANI that the INDIA alliance meet becomes more important after the suspension of 92 MPs.

“This meeting becomes even more important, after the dictatorial behaviour of the central government. The way they are misusing their powers, it is important the people know about it. It is important to tell the people that today it is happening with the Members of Parliament, and it can happen with them as well. Whatever decision is being made will be made after the agreement of everyone,” she said.

“I am sure alliance parties will take steps to make sure mistakes made in recent Assembly polls are not repeated. The alliance has been formed to win. Seat-sharing should be done as per the winnability of candidates of the parties,” JMM MP Mahua Maji said.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal met Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin ahead of the INDIA alliance meeting.

“In the meeting today important points like seat-sharing and others will be discussed. AAP and Arvind Kejriwal will make every possible effort to make INDIA alliance a success,” AAP leader Atishi told news agency ANI.

“The ongoing Assembly session is an important one and the CM (Hemant Soren) must be present for it. The party has appointed a high-level representative panel including two MPs who will attend the meeting and keep the party’s stand before the alliance,” JMM leader Manoj Pandey told news agency ANI.

A day before the meeting, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, “The Congress, after its defeat in the three states, should take lessons from it. It has to shun the Zamindari culture. It can’t treat its partners as its subjects. To ensure that the INDIA bloc wins, it must make Mamata Banerjee, who is a three-time chief minister and three-time union minister, and other senior leaders the face of the INDIA bloc.”

Banerjee, who is already in New Delhi, also said that prime ministerial candidate for INDIA will be decided after the 2024 elections.