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Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien has been suspended from Rajya Sabha for the remainder of the monsoon session for his unruly behaviour and unbecoming of a Rajya Sabha member.
However, later Rajya Sabha witnessed high drama over the suspension of TMC MP Derek O’Brien with the Chairman first announcing that he has to withdraw from the House but later said the motion to suspend him was not put to vote and hence, he could continue to attend the proceedings.
O’Brien was allowed to attend the House proceedings after Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said he has taken a “far-sighted” decision to not allow voting on the motion to suspend him which did not fructify.
“If O’Brien would have been suspended from the House for this session, do you think he would have been allowed to enter the House again? Can he come back again?” the chairman said, adding that for him action against any member is a mater of pain.
“I have ended my own pain, no one has done that. If the motion was passed fully, O’Brien could not have entered the House again. “How he was allowed to enter the House as the motion against O’Brien could not fructify. I did not take that sense of the House deliberately. It is my obligation to ensure to an extreme degree that the House runs. I have been extremely accommodative whenever the TMC MP has come to my chamber and requested him,” Dhankhar said.
Leader of the House Piyush Goyal moved a motion for his suspension “for continuously disturbing the proceedings of the House, disobeying the Chair and continuously creating disturbance in the House.”
TMC MP in Rajya Sabha Derek O’Brien suspended for the remainder of the current Parliament session “for unruly behaviour unbecoming of a Member of Rajya Sabha.”
Leader of the House Piyush Goyal moved a motion for his suspension “for continuously disturbing the proceedings of the… https://t.co/cWFJvhRmYt pic.twitter.com/o6sU758QiX
— ANI (@ANI) August 8, 2023
Earlier, Derek O’Brien on Tuesday claimed that it has taken the rules of a no-confidence motion moved by the opposition to “drag” Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Lok Sabha.
In a tweet, the TMC’s Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha also urged the prime minister to come to the Upper House.
“It’s taken the rules of a no-confidence motion to finally drag the PM to the Lok Sabha,” he tweeted.
19 days PM @narendramodi has been MISSING IN #Parliament
It’s taken the rules of a No Confidence Motion to FINALLY DRAG PM to Lok Sabha.
And in #RajyaSabha what’s stopping this heartless government from starting the discussion on #Manipur TODAY AUG 8 at 11 am. Let’s begin
— Derek O’Brien | ডেরেক ও’ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) August 8, 2023
“And in the Rajya Sabha, what’s stopping this heartless government from starting the discussion on Manipur today, August 8, at 11 am. Let’s begin,” he added in the tweet.
On the suspension of TMC MP Derek O’Brien for the remainder of the current Parliament session, Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Jethmalani told media persons outside parliament, “He had been inviting such action. I think he was already warned four times but he didn’t relent. So, I think Chairman had no other option.”
