The Rajya Sabha was adjourned today till Dec 19 morning and a total of 45 MPs have been suspended from the Rajya Sabha through a voice vote for the rest of the winter session.

The Opposition MPs have been demanding a detailed statement by union home minister Amit Shah in both the houses over the Dec 13 Parliament security breach issue.

The upper house suspended a total of 34 Opposition MPs for the remainder of the winter session, which include:

From Indian National Congress (INC):

Jairam Ramesh

KC Venugopal

Randeep Singh Surjewala

Pramod Tiwari

Amee Yajnik

Naran Rathwa

Syed Naseer Hussain

Phulo Devi Netam

Shaktisinh Gohil

Rajani Patil

Ranjeet Ranjan

Imran Pratapgarhi

From All India Trinamool Congress (AITC):

Sukhendu Sekhar Ray

Mohammad Nadimul Haque

Mausam Noor

Abir Ranjan Biswas

Prakash Chik Baraik

Samirul Islam

Santanu Sen

From Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD):

Manoj Kumar Jha

Faiyaz Ahmad

From Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK):

R Girirajan

M Shanmugam

NR Elango

Kanimozhi NVM Somu

Other Parties:

[From Nationalist Congress Party, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Janata Dal United, Samajwadi Party, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Kerala Congress (Mani), Anchalik Gana Morcha.]

Vandana Chavan (NCP)

V Sivadasan (CPI-M)

Ram Nath Thakur (JDU)

Aneel Prasad Hegde (JDU)

Ram Gopal Yadav (SP)

Javed Ali Khan (SP)

Mahua Maji (JMM)

Jose K Mani (KEC-M)

Ajit Kumar Bhuyan (AGM)

Meanwhile, the matter of suspension of the 11 Rajya Sabha MPs was referred to the privilege committee.

The MPs whose names have been referred to the privilege committee include Jebi Mather Hisham (INC), L Hanumanthaiah (INC), Neeraj Dangi (INC), Rajmani Patel (INC), Kumar Ketkar (INC), GC Chandrashekhar (INC), Binoy Viswam (CPI), Sandosh Kumar P (CPI), M Mohamed Abdulla (DMK), John Brittas (CPI-M) and AA Rahim (CPI-M).

After announcing the suspension of the 45 MPs, Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said that many members are deliberately ignoring the Chair.

“The House is not functioning due to disruption,” he said.

Following the suspension of the Opposition, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day. Earlier in the day, 33 MPs from the Lok Sabha were also suspended for the remainder of the Winter Session including Leader of Congress in the House Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.

The Opposition has been demanding a statement by Amit Shah on the parliament security breach case in which a total of six people have been arrested.

The security breach coincided with the 22nd anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack.

(Source: IANS)

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