Six Congress members from the Lok Sabha were suspended for five days by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan Monday on the ground of “highly unbecoming” conduct during their protests ove the lynching issue that “undermined the Chair’s dignity”.
Mahajan announced her order as soon as the House met at 2pm following an adjournment. She said she was constrained to name Gaurav Gogoi, K Suresh, Adhir Rajan Chowdhury, Ranjeet Ranjan, Sushmita Dev and MK Raghavan for their improper behaviour.
In her order, she said all these members had torn official papers and thrown it towards the Chair, prompting members of the treasury benches to shout “shame, shame”.
Some of these members had picked up papers from the Lok Sabha secretariat staffers’ table and had torn and thrown them, Mahajan said.
