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Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chief Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday criticised the Narendra Modi government over the suspension of 141 Opposition MPs in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament...
Never before have so many Opposition MPs been suspended from the house (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha), and that too, simply for raising a perfectly reasonable and legitimate demand," at the annual CCP meeting in New Delhi...
Supporting the demands of the Opposition MPs to seek a statement from the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the Parliamentary security breach of December 13, she added, "All that the opposition MPs asked for was a statement to be made by the (Union) Home Minister in the Lok Sabha addressing the extraordinary events of December 13"...
Notably, on Wednesday, December 13, Lok Sabha was engulfed in chaos after two men jumped into the House chamber, released yellow smoke from two canisters and shouted slogans before being overpowered by MPs...
According to the police, Sagar and Manoranjan had jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery, released yellow smoke from canisters and shouted slogans...
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