Suspension of opposition MPs: INDIA bloc leaders hold nationwide protest
PTC News Desk: Leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc are all set to hold a protest in the national capital against the suspension of 146 opposition MPs.
Members of Parliament, who have been suspended from the Winter Session of Parliament, which was adjourned sine die on Thursday, will protest at the Jantar Mantar at 11 a.m.
The Congress Party has also scheduled a nationwide protest at all district headquarters today.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, one of the suspended lawmakers, said on Thursday that the INDIA bloc's Friday protest will take place in all states.
"It's appropriate to protest and all of us will be at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. The INDIA alliance protest will happen everywhere tomorrow (Friday) morning in all the states because we want to show the public that if they'd run Parliament like this and won't listen to the opposition then they are ruining the democracy," he stated.
ND Gupta, Sandeep Pathak, Sant Balbir Seecehwal, and Sanjeev Arora of the Aam Aadmi Party will join the INDIA bloc protest today.
So far, 146 MPs -- 100 from the Lok Sabha and 46 from the Rajya Sabha -- have been suspended for causing a commotion and disrupting proceedings in both Houses while demanding a statement from Union Minister Amit Shah about the Parliament security breach.
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