THE BIG STORY
Wave of suspensions in Parl: Count hits 141
The Lok Sabha Speaker suspended 49 more Opposition members on Tuesday, a day after a record 78 parliamentarians from both houses were ordered out till at least the end of the Winter session, deepening the crisis in India’s Parliament where some crucial bills were tabled, briefly discussed, and sailed through.
Among the MPs ordered out in the latest wave of were Nationalist Congress Party’s Supriya Sule, Jammu & Kashmir National Conference MP Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Karti Chidambaram, Bahujan Samaj Party’s Danish Ali, and Samajwadi Party’s Dimple Yadav. Read more.