New Delhi/IBNS: Opposition MPs, who were suspended from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over the week, took out a protest march in the national capital Delhi on Thursday morning, media reports said.
The march was carried out from the old Parliament building to Vijay Chowk in central Delhi.
The parliamentarians including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Lok Sabha floor leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury were seen holding placards with Save Democracy written on them.
Kharge posted on X, Passing important legislations by suspending Opposition MPs is not Democracy.
It is the worst kind of authoritarianism. Our future generations will not forgive us, if we do not raise our voices against this dictatorship, NOW !
We, the people of India need to Save Democracy.
Passing important legislations by suspending Opposition MPs is not Democracy. It is the worst kind of authoritarianism.
Our future generations will not forgive us, if we do not raise our voices against this dictatorship, NOW ! pic.twitter.com/hGglS4GR90
Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) December 21, 2023
Over 140 opposition MPs from the two houses of Parliament were suspended for their unruly behaviour.
The opposition parliamentarians were suspended while they were demanding a government statement on the Parliament security breach.
Govt strangulating democracy: Sonia Gandhi
Amid the large-scale suspension of Opposition MPs in both Houses of Parliament, Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday accused the Centre of strangulating democracy.
Photo courtesy: UNI
Addressing the CPP meeting here, Gandhi said, Never before have so many Opposition members of Parliament been suspended from the House, and that too, simply for raising a perfectly reasonable and legitimate demand.
Describing the Parliament security breach incident as inexcusable, she criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for speaking on it only outside the House.
