Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has agreed to revoke the suspension of eight Opposition MPs, including seven from the Congress, who were suspended for the entirety of the ongoing budget session.
At a meeting convened by Birla, both the ruling and the opposition sides also agreed not to enter the well of the Lok Sabha to confront the other and to adhere to the established norms and traditions of the House.
The government will move a motion to revoke the suspension of lawmakers on Tuesday, 42 days after they were barred for the remainder of the budget session.
They were suspended after massive protests rocked the House following Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s insistence to read from former army chief MM Naravane’s unpublished memoir.
The Opposition’s notice for a no-confidence motion against Birla had also mentioned the suspension of MPs.
On Monday, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal raised the issue in the Lok Sabha.
Several opposition MPs, including Congress’s K Suresh, NCP(SP) lawmaker Supriya Sule, TMC’s Shatabdi Ray, demanded that the suspension be lifted.
Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju also raised the topic of disruptions and unruly protests.
Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Hibi Eden, C Kiran Kumar Reddy, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Manickam Tagore, Prashant Padole and Dean Kuriakose (all Congress) and S Ventakesan of the CPI(M) were suspended from the House by a motion moved by Rijiju on February 3.
