Rajya Sabha Ruckus: Dhankhar Asks Privilege Panel To Probe ‘Disorderly Conduct’ Of 12 Oppn MPs

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday requested {that a} parliamentary committee probe the alleged breach of privilege by 12 opposition MPs from the Congress and AAP for frequently coming into the Home’s effectively, screaming slogans, and blocking its enterprise, information company PTI reported.

In response to a Rajya Sabha bulletin, the Congress has 9 MPs and the Aam Aadmi Get together has three (AAP).

Rajya Sabha chairman refers to Home panel challenge of alleged breach of privilege by 12 opposition MPs for disorderly conduct: Bulletin

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Shaktisinh Gohil, Naranbhai J Rathwa, Syed Nasir Hussain, Kumar Ketkar, Imran Prattapgarhi, L Hanumanthaiah, Phulo Devi Netam, Jebi Mather Hisham, and Ranjeet Ranjan are the Congress MPs.

Sanjay Singh, Sushil Kumar Gupta, and Sandeep Kumar Pathak are AAP members.

Within the bulletin dated February 18, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat stated, “…the Chairman…has referred a query of alleged breach of privilege arising out of gross disorderly conduct displayed by (the MPs)….in violation of guidelines and etiquette of Rajya Sabha by repeatedly coming into the effectively of the council, shouting slogans and persistently and wilfully obstructing the proceedings of the council, compelling the Chair to repeatedly adjourn the sittings of the Council.” 

Throughout the first leg of the Price range Session, which ended earlier this month, the Rajya Sabha was typically disrupted by demonstrations by opposition MPs over quite a lot of issues.

In one other discover, the Rajya Sabha Secretariat stated, “…members are knowledgeable that the Chairman, Rajya Sabha has referred a query of alleged breach of privilege arising out of non-adherence to the instructions of the Chair vis-a-vis repeated submission of similar notices underneath rule 267 by Shri Sanjay Singh, Member, Rajya Sabha, underneath rule 203 of the Guidelines of Process and Conduct of Enterprise within the Council of States (Rajya Sabha) to the Committee of Privileges for examination, investigation and report.” 

(With Inputs From PTI)