Congress leaders also held a protest against the India–US trade deal signed late on Monday night
Congress MPs, including Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, held a protest on Tuesday afternoon after eight Congress MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha for their alleged unruly behaviour during the session earlier in the day.
The suspended MPs include Hibi Eden, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Manickam Tagore, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Kiran Kumar Reddy, Prashant Padole, S. Venkatesan, and Dean Kuriakose, according to news agency ANI.
Suspended Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla said, "It is the opposition's duty to present the issues facing the entire country; that's what Parliament is for, and the government should come and respond to them.”
Congress MP Manickam Tagore told ANI, “Our mistake is that we were protesting against the government's decision not to allow the leader of the opposition, Rahul Gandhi, to speak. Yesterday, LoP Rahul Gandhi was disturbed again and again, and he was not allowed to speak, and he was asked to give authentication. Today, he came up with the authentication, and he gave the letter and submitted the authentication. After that, they stopped the speech of the leader of the opposition. Rahul Gandhi spoke about China, US tariffs. After that, Rahul Gandhi's mic was taken, and we protested; therefore, we are suspended...”
According to a report by Hindustan Times, the suspensions came after two consecutive days of chaos in the House over the “unpublished memoir of former Army chief MM Naravane's account on the India–China conflict, cited by Rahul Gandhi.”
Congress leaders also held a protest against the India–US trade deal signed late on Monday night, which brings US tariffs on ‘Made in India’ products to 18%, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump.
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