Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspends 19 AIADMK & TDP MPs for 4 days
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Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspends 19 AIADMK & TDP MPs for 4 days

The suspended members had repeatedly disrupted the proceedings of the Lok Sabha over Cauvery river and special state status to Andhra Pradesh.

   
Sumitra Mahajan

Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan | PTI

AIADMK and TDP members were repeatedly disrupting the proceedings of the Lok Sabha over Cauvery river and special state status to Andhra Pradesh.

New Delhi: As many as 19 members of the AIADMK and TDP were suspended on Thursday for four days by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for repeatedly disrupting the proceedings of the House.

As soon as the Zero Hour commenced at noon, AIADMK and TDP members trooped in the Well, raising slogans and carrying banners demanding stalling of a dam on river Cauvery and special state status to Andhra Pradesh respectively.

As the disruptions continued, the Speaker suspended 19 MPs of the two parties.

Mahajan had on Wednesday suspended 24 AIADMK members for the next five consecutive sittings for protesting and creating ruckus continuously in the House over the Cauvery issue.

The AIADMK has 37 members in the House.

The Winter Session will conclude on January 8. – PTI