Parliament Winter Session 2021 Live Updates: Opposition MPs led a protest march from the Gandhi statue to Vijay Chowk demanding that the suspension of 12 Rajya Sabha members be revoked. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who joined the protesting members, said, “This (suspension of 12 MPs) is a symbol of the crushing of the voice of people of India. Their voices have been crushed. They have done nothing wrong.”
Gandhi said they are not allowed to raise issues of national importance. “Bills after Bills are being passed in Parliament in the din. This is not the way to run the Parliament. PM doesn’t come to House. We are not allowed to raise any issue of national importance. It is the unfortunate killing of democracy,” he said.
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm after Opposition members trooped into the Well of the House and raised slogans demanding the revocation of suspension MPs. Unrelenting MPs continued raising slogans like ‘We want justice’ even as House chairperson M Venkaiah Naidu told members that suspension of MPs will be withdrawn if they express regret about their actions.
The opposition parties decided after a meeting today that their members in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will march from Gandhi Statue till Vijay Chowk in support of the 12 suspended Rajya Sabha MPs.
