49 more opposition MPs suspended from Lok Sabha; Shashi Tharoor, Dimple Yadav & Manish Tewari among those expelled

The Lok Sabha Tuesday expelled 49 more MPs including Supriya Sule, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Farooq Abdullah, Md Faisal, Karti Chidambaram, Sudip Bandhopadhyay, Dimple Yadav and Danish Ali for the remainder of the winter session of Parliament. The opposition lawmakers were disrupting the proceedings of the House, following which they were suspended on Tuesday. They were suspended for carrying placard in the Lok Sabha and entering the well of House. Soon after the suspension, the Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm on Tuesday.

More Opposition MPs in Lok Sabha including Supriya Sule, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Md Faisal, Karti Chidambaram, Sudip Bandhopadhyay, Dimple Yadav and Danish Ali suspended for the remainder of the winter session of Parliament pic.twitter.com/nxcUVnlVEn

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A total of 141 MPs have now been suspended in the ongoing Winter session of the Parliament – 95 from Lok Sabha and 46 from Rajya Sabha. On Monday, 78 opposition MPs were suspended from Parliament, the highest number of suspensions in a single day, drawing sharp criticism from the Congress and other parties that accused the BJP government of trying to bulldoze key legislations in an “Opposition-less” Parliament. An additional 49 Lok Sabha members were suspended on Tuesday for disrupting House proceedings. With this, there is hardly any opposition strength left in the Lower house of Parliament. The opposition MPs continued their protests both in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over their suspension and pressing for a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the Parliament security breach. They showed placards and shouted slogans. Meanwhile, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said that the Opposition was sulking over the defeat in the recent assembly polls. Name of 49 MPs suspended from Lok Sabha 1. V. Vaithilingam 2. Gurjeet Singh Aujla 3. Supriya Sule 4. Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka 5. Adoor Prakash 6. Abdul Samad 7. Manish Tiwari 8. Pradyut Bordoloi 9. Girdhari Yadav 10. Geeta Koda 11. Francisco Sardinha 12. S. Jagathrakshakan 13. SR Parthiban 14. Farooq Abdullah 15. Jyotsna Mahant 16. A.Ganesha Moorthy 17. Mala Roy 18. P. Velusamy 19. Chander Kumar ((cross check)) 20. Shashi Tharoor 21. Karti Chidambaram 22. Sudip Bandyopadhyay 23. Dimple Yadav 24. Hasnain Masoodi 25. Danish Ali 26. Khalilur Rahaman 27. Rajiv Ranjan Singh 28. Senthil Kumar 29. Santosh Kumar 30. Dulal Chandra Goswami 31. Ravneet Singh Bittu 32. Dinesh Yadav 33. K Sudhakaran 34. Mohd Sadiq 35. MK Prasad 36. PP Mohd Faizal 37. Sajda Ahmed 38. Jasveer Singh Gill 39. Amol Kohle 40. Sushil Kumar Rinku 41. Sunil Kumar Singh 42. Dr ST Hasan 43. M Dhanush Kumar 44. Pratibha Singh 45. Thol. Thirumavalavan 46. Chandrashwar Prasad 47. Alok Kumar Suman 48. Dileshwar Kamait 49. Adur Prakash. With inputs from agencies