Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury suspended from Lok Sabha over misconduct | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was on Thursday suspended from Parliament for his “misconduct” during the debate on the no-confidence motion.

The Congress MP will remain suspended until the privilege committee takes a decision about his conduct while speaking in the Lok Sabha on the vote of no confidence.
A resolution was passed by the Lok Sabha in this regard.

Parliamentary affairs minister had sought an apology from the Congress leader for his remarks against PM Modi during this speech.
However, Chowdhury didn’t tender an apology after which the minister moved the resolution, which was passed with a voice vote.
The opposition members including Chowdhury were not present in the house as they has walked out in the middle of PM speech.
The Congress MP took a series of digs at PM Modi during his speech in Lok Sabha.
Referring to the Mahabharata, Chowdhury said that the king should not be blind to what is happening against women whether it is in Hastinapur or Manipur.
His comments evoked sharp reaction from home minister Amit Shah who urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to ask Chowdhury to exercise restraint and maintain the decorum of the House.
Chowdhury responded by saying why Shah was getting angry when the Prime Minister had no issues with his speech.
Later, Speaker Om Birla expunged certain remarks of Chowdhury.
During his speech, Chowdhury also said that it is time for polarisation, communalisation and saffronisation to quit India.
He was responding to BJP’s slogan on the 81st anniversary of Quit India movement calling for riddance of dynasticism, corruption, and appeasement politics in an apparent attack on the Congress and the opposition bloc INDIA.
Recalling the Quit India movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942, the Congress leader said “there should be Quit India, but it should be quit communalism, quit polarisation, and quit saffronisation”.
Later, parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi in a post on X condemned Chowdhury’s statement against the Prime Minister Modi, saying that the Congress leader should apologise to the House and also to the nation.
(With inputs from agencies)