The suspended lawmakers were protesting a security breach in the parliament earlier this month which saw a man storm the lower house and released a gas canister.
India suspended dozens of lawmakers from its parliament Tuesday, with opposition members accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party of orchestrating a power grab.
The lawmakers were suspended for disrupting parliamentary proceedings as they protested a security breach in the chamber after a man jumped into the Lok Sabha, or lower house, earlier this month and set off a smoke canister, shouting slogans and calling for an end to “fascism.”
The Lok Sabha’s speaker has said a review is being conducted and the police have filed terrorism charges against at least five people in connection with the breach.
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NEW DELHI — India suspended dozens of lawmakers from its parliament Tuesday, with opposition members accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party of orchestrating a power grab.
The lawmakers were suspended for disrupting parliamentary proceedings as they protested a security breach in the chamber after a man jumped into the Lok Sabha, or lower house, earlier this month and set off a smoke canister, shouting slogans and calling for an end to “fascism.”
Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which has majority in both houses, is now almost unopposed as multiple contentious draft laws are set to be debated in the parliament.
The suspended lawmakers, most of whom are part of the “INDIA” coalition that is trying to dethrone the BJP in next year’s national elections, called the move as dictatorial.
The government “does not want the people of India to hear out the Opposition, while these Bills are debated and deliberated,” Mallikarjun Kharge, president of the Congress party, said Tuesday in a post on X.
Indian Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar said Wednesday he had received a telephone call from Modi who “expressed great pain over the abject theatrics of some Honourable MPs,” in a post on X.
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