New Delhi: A day after Wednesday’s Parliament safety breach — when two males jumped onto the members’ benches from the guests’ gallery and threw a smoke canister — Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien was suspended from the Home by chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar Thursday, for sloganeering and demanding a dialogue on the incident.
O’Brien has been suspended for the remainder of the winter session for his alleged “ignoble misconduct”, with Dhankhar saying that the MP disrupted the proceedings of the Home by getting into the properly and “continuously shouting slogans gesticulating at the Chair”.
The Opposition — from the Congress to the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) — remained centered on the safety breach Thursday, linking the incident with anger among the many youth over the problem of unemployment, which they claimed had pushed the accused to enter Parliament to protest towards the federal government’s insurance policies.
O’Brien and different Opposition members within the Rajya Sabha additionally demanded that Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah gave an announcement to the Home on Wednesday’s safety breach. Earlier within the day, Opposition members had met within the chamber of the Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, and demanded a probe into the matter.
Wednesday’s incident comes on the anniversary of the 13 December assault on the outdated Parliament constructing 22 years in the past, which had killed eight safety personnel and a gardener. All 5 terrorists had been additionally killed. Former Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Entrance militant who had surrendered in 1994, Afzal Guru was hanged in 2013 for his function within the incident.
What raises additional questions on Wednesday’s safety breach is that simply days in the past, US-Canada-based Sikh separatist chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun threatened to assault the Indian “Parliament on or before 13 December”, following which, intelligence sources stated, the safety had been “stepped up”.
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‘Defied the chair’
The movement for O’Brien’s suspension was moved by Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) chief and chief of the Home in Rajya Sabha, Piyush Goel, who accused the TMC MP of “continuously violating rule, shouting and sloganeering”.
Whereas adopting the movement and suspending O’Brien, Dhankhar accused him of “defying the chair, despite repeated warning.” “He came into the well [of the House] and the House adopts the motion to suspend him for the remaining period of the House [during the winter session],” the Rajya Sabha chairman added.
Critisising the Opposition response to Wednesday’s incident, Dhankhar stated, “What message are we sending to the country and the world. It is shameful. I am forced to name a few members of house who have disrespected house decorum and breached the privilege of the house. This is serious defiance… Derek, you have defied the chair.”
(Edited by Poulomi Banerjee)
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