Congress MPs to Meet on Floor Strategy 'Budget Session'

Congress Lok Sabha MPs will hold a meeting on Wednesday at the Congress Parliamentary Party office to chalk out their strategy for the Floor of the House during the ongoing Budget Session. 

The meeting comes after the Lok Sabha witnessed a standoff between the opposition and the Treasury benches. Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi reinvoked the unpublished memoir of former Army Chief General MM Naravane during the proceedings.

Following the disruption, eight opposition MPs were suspended from the Lok Sabha for the



remainder of the Budget Session for violating rules and allegedly “throwing papers on the chair.” 

The suspended MPs include Congress members Hibi Eden, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Manickam Tagore, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Prashant Yadaorao Padole, Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy, Dean Kuriakose, and CPI(M) MP S Venkatesan.

Rahul Gandhi also wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, raising concerns over being prevented from speaking on matters of national security during the discussion on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address.