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24 AIADMK MPs suspended for creating ruckus
As many as 24 AIADMK members were suspended by Lok SabhaSpeaker Sumitra Mahajan Wednesday for the next five consecutive sittings for protesting and creating ruckus continuously in the House over the Cauvery issue.
New Delhi
Soon after the House reconvened after adjournment, AIADMK members trooped into the Well with placards and some flinging torn pieces of papers towards the table where Lok Sabha secretariat officials sit during proceedings.
A visibly peeved Mahajan suspended 24 members of AIADMKunder rule 374 (A) that allows Lok Sabha speaker to suspend members in the event of grave disorder occasioned by a member coming into the Well of the House, among other things.
The Members included K Ashok Kumar, R K Bharathi Mohan, M Chandrakasi, Jayakumar Jayavardhan, K Parasuraman, Dr K Kamraj, P Kumar, M Vasanti, C Mahendram, K Margatham and P Nagarajan. The AIADMK has 37 members in Lok Sabha. Earlier, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu ordered members of AIADMK and DMK to leave the House when they continued to protest in the Well over the Cauvery issue.
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