Bitter Experience Of Monsoon Session Continues To Haunt Members: RS Chairman
Mumbai: Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said the bitter experience of the last monsoon session still haunts many members.
Addressing the House, Naidu said, “The bitter experience of the last monsoon session still continues to haunt most of us. I was expecting and waiting for the leading lights of the House to take lead in expressing outrage over what happened in the last session.”
“Such assurance would have helped me in handling the matter appropriately but unfortunately it will not be,” he added.
The Rajya Sabha chairman’s remarks came after Leader of Opposition in the House Mallikarjun Kharge asked Naidu how the decision to suspend 12 MPs could be taken on the basis of the incident in the last monsoon session.
“We came to your office to request for revocation of the suspension of 12 MPs. The incident happened in the last monsoon session. So, how can you take this decision now,” Mallikaarjun Kharge said.
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Monday suspended Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, who is the Vice President, in a letter to him for violence on the last day of the monsoon session.
The suspended MPs include six from Congress, two each from TMC and Shiv Sena and one each from CPM and CPI. Action has been taken against them on the charge of ‘indiscipline’ in the monsoon session of the House.
The suspended MPs are Elamaram Kareem (CPM), Phulo Devi Netam, Chhaya Verma, R Bora, Rajamani Patel, Syed Nasir Hussain and Akhilesh Prasad Singh of the Congress, Binoy Viswam of CPI, Dola Sen and Shanta Chhetri of Trinamool Congress, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Anil Desai of Shiv Sena.
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