Interim President Sonia Gandhi attended an important parliamentary party meeting on Wednesday morning, where she highlighted many of the issues at hand, from the peasant crisis to border issues. Gandhi also talked about the 12 lawmakers who were suspended by Rajya Sabha for “unruly behavior” last week, and said that the Congress Party fully supports the suspended legislators.
During the important parliamentary party meeting in the central hall of the New Delhi Parliament Building on Wednesday, the opposition parties protested the suspension of parliamentarians last week. Opposition lawmakers now plan to hold a sit-in in front of the Gandhi statue in the parliament building later in the day.
Here is what Sonia Gandhi said at the parliamentary party meeting:
Regarding the farmers’ crisis: “Let’s pay tribute to the 700 farmers who sacrificed [during the protest]. The Modi government is indifferent to farmers and ordinary people. The increase in basic commodity prices is consuming each family’s monthly budget.”
Regarding the border issue: “We ask the Parliament to conduct a comprehensive discussion on the border situation and relations with neighboring countries.” Regarding the suspension of 12 MPs: “This is unprecedented and unacceptable. We are in solidarity with the suspended MPs.”
Regarding Nagaland: “The government’s regret over the Nagaland incident is not enough, and credible measures need to be taken to prevent such tragedies from happening again.”
It is worth noting that among the suspended members of Parliament, Rajya Sabha has 6 members of parliament, 2 each of Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena, and 1 each of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India (Marxism) (CPI-M). ). They are Phulo Devi Netam, Chhaya Verma, Ripun Bora, Rajamani Patel, Syed Nasir Hussain and Akhilesh Prasad Singh of the National Assembly; Dola Sen and Shanta Chhetri of the Trinamool Congress; Priyanka Chaturvedi and Anil Desai of Shiv Sena; Elamaram of the CPM Kareem; and Binoy Viswam of CPI.
On November 29, during the passage of the General Insurance Business (Nationalization) Amendment Act of 2021, after opposition members stormed into the House of Representatives, at the end of the August monsoon meeting, members were suspended for alleged unruly behavior .
News source : Hindustan times
