Who are the MPs out of Parliament and why?

As many as 49 Lok Sabha MPs—including National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, Indian National Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and Karti Chidambaram and the Nationalist Congress Party’s Supriya Sule—were suspended today for protesting in the Lok Sabha and demanding an explanation about the Parliament security breach from union home minister Amit Shah.

With this, a total of 141 MPs have now been suspended in this winter session of Parliament—95 from the Lok Sabha and 46 from the Rajya Sabha.

Other Congress MPs who were suspended today include V. Vaithilingam, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Saptagiri Ulaka, Adoor Prakash, Pradyut Bordoloi, Geeta Koda, Francisco Sardinha, Jyotsna Mahant, A. Chellakumar, Ravneet Bittu, K. Sudhakaran, Muhammad Sadiq , M.K. Vishnu Prasad, Jasbir Singh Gill and Pratibha Singh.

Hasnain Masoodi of the National Conference was also suspended, and so were Dimple Yadav, S.T. Hasan, P.P. Mohammed Faizal and Amol Kolhe of the NCP.

Also suspended were Abdul Samadani of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML); Giridhari Yadav, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Santosh Kumar, Dulal Chandra Goswami, Dinesh Yadav, Mahabali Singh, Sunil Kumar, Chandeshwar Prasad, Alok Kumar Suman and Dileshwar Kamait of the JD(U) [Janata Dal (United)]; S. Jagathrakshakan, S.R. Parthiban, A. Ganeshamurthi, P. Velusamy, D.N.V. Senthil Kumar and Dhanush M. Kumar of DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam); Mala Roy, Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Khalil Ur Rahaman and Sajda Ahmed of the All-India Trinamool Congress; Sushil Kumar Rinku of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP); Thol. Thirumavalavan of the VCK (Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi)—and Danish Ali, who was recently suspended by the BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) for supporting Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra in contradiction of the party line.

They showed placards and shouted slogans like, “PM sadan mein aao. Gruh mantri istifa do (Prime Minister, attend the assembly session. Home Minister, resign).”

Congress leader Karti Chidambaram said, “This is going to resemble the North Korean assembly. The only thing missing is clapping when the prime minister comes and gets his bills passed and gets endorsed by a rubber stamp house. This is going to be a token house."

Parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi, while moving a motion for the suspension of the MPs, mocked the protesting members for being "frustrated" over the recent assembly election results.

Both houses experienced unscheduled adjournments because of protests from opposition members. Speaker Om Birla in the Lok Sabha and vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar were seen objecting to the use of placards inside the chambers.

As chairman, Jagdeep Dhankhar also took exception to a viral video which had Serampore MP Kalyan Banerjee mimicking him in a skit that parodied the Parliament proceedings outside the house. He singled out Congress leader P. Chidambaram, accusing his party of posting a video on social media that insults the chairman’s “background as a farmer”.

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the fourth time after considering and returning two Appropriation bills. The chairman said the protests of the opposition leaders were “contributing to the disorder of the House”.

In an unprecedented move, 78 opposition MPs had already been suspended from Parliament on Monday, 18 December, the highest number of suspensions ever in a single day, drawing sharp criticism from the Congress and other parties, who accused the BJP government of trying to bulldoze key legislations through in an "opposition-less" Parliament.

INDIA bloc MPs have been demanding a statement from Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament on 13 December. On 14 December, 14 opposition MPs were suspended for the remaining days of the winter session of Parliament for disrupting the proceedings. While Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien was the only one to have been suspended from the Rajya Sabha at that early stage, the 13 MPs suspended from the Lok Sabha included nine from the Congress and the DMK’s Kanimozhi.