New Delhi, Mar 10 (PTI) Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra Tuesday described as “divine karma” that she was supporting a motion to remove Om Brla as speaker in Lok Sabha from where she was “wrongly” expelled in 2023.
Participating in the debate on opposition’s resolution seeking removal of Birla from office, she also said the current speaker has set “less than graceful benchmarks” while presiding over the House.
She said on the past three occasions when a resolution to remove the speaker came up before the House, there were deputy speakers to preside the House.
But now there is no deputy speaker for years and a panel of presiding officers were running the House during the crucial issue on Tuesday.
Moitra alleged that a rule which allows the speaker to suspend MPs without a formal resolution in case of grave misconduct has been abused by the current speaker, which is the “very antithesis of democracy”.
“It is all that democracy should not be. In December 2023, Birla ji ordered the largest mass suspension in the history of Indian Parliament, suspending 100 opposition MPs.
“This one episode alone accounted for over 40 per cent of all Lok Sabha suspensions since 2004,” she claimed. PTI GJS NAB ZMN
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