After a fracas over the demand for a response from Home Minister Amit Shah over the incursion of two people into the Lok Sabha the day before, 14 opposition MPs—13 from the Lok Sabha and one from the Rajya Sabha—were suspended from the House for the remainder of the winter session last Thursday.
Normally, the government would have released an official statement outlining the facts and the way the situation was handled. It ought to have been prepared to hear the opinions of the opposition and discuss them. A well-informed debate would have been beneficial to the country.
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Instead, citing their disruptive and riotous behavior, the leadership decided to remove the most outspoken MPs. When another MP, who was not in the House, was suspended, the whole thing became a farce. Justifications such as administrative errors and misidentifications are inadequate justifications that bolster the accusation that rules and customs are not given much thought when disciplinary procedures are implemented.
It is quite legitimate for the opposition to ask the administration for explanations and to hold it responsible for the commission and omission of its crimes. When there was a need for the administration to make a statement inside the House, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the home minister even inappropriately spoke about the security breach outside of parliament. Parliament is a place for debate and discussion, not conflict. It is the duty of both the government and the opposition to make sure it runs smoothly, but the burden of proof is mostly with the ruling party and the government.
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The opposition should be allowed to voice its opinions in parliament, according to the government. The opposition tends to get disruptive when their rights are violated. More often than ever, the government is employing privilege changes, expulsions, and suspensions against members of the opposition.
Depriving voters of their representation in the House is another way to describe such activities. The very rarest of circumstances should warrant the use of suspension. The government ought to support a discussion about the security breach and lift the present suspensions. It shouldn’t attempt to conceal itself behind claims that the Speaker is the right party to address this issue rather than the administration and that the opposition is acting politically. A political forum is also the parliament.
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