49 more opposition MPs suspended from Lok Sabha; Shashi Tharoor, Dimple Yadav & Manish Tewari among those expelled

The Lok Sabha Tuesday expelled 49 more MPs including Supriya Sule, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Farooq Abdullah, Md Faisal, Karti Chidambaram, Sudip Bandhopadhyay, Dimple Yadav and Danish Ali for the remainder of the winter session of Parliament.

The opposition lawmakers were disrupting the proceedings of the House, following which they were suspended on Tuesday.

They were suspended for carrying placard in the Lok Sabha and entering the well of House.

Soon after the suspension, the Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm on Tuesday.

More Opposition MPs in Lok Sabha including Supriya Sule, Manish Tewari, Shashi Tharoor, Md Faisal, Karti Chidambaram, Sudip Bandhopadhyay, Dimple Yadav and Danish Ali suspended for the remainder of the winter session of Parliament pic.twitter.com/nxcUVnlVEn

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A total of 141 MPs have now been suspended in the ongoing Winter session of the Parliament – 95 from Lok Sabha and 46 from Rajya Sabha.

On Monday, 78 opposition MPs were suspended from Parliament, the highest number of suspensions in a single day, drawing sharp criticism from the Congress and other parties that accused the BJP government of trying to bulldoze key legislations in an "Opposition-less" Parliament.

An additional 49 Lok Sabha members were suspended on Tuesday for disrupting House proceedings.

With this, there is hardly any opposition strength left in the Lower house of Parliament.

The opposition MPs continued their protests both in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over their suspension and pressing for a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the Parliament security breach. They showed placards and shouted slogans.

Meanwhile, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said that the Opposition was sulking over the defeat in the recent assembly polls.

Name of 49 MPs suspended from Lok Sabha

1. V. Vaithilingam
2. Gurjeet Singh Aujla
3. Supriya Sule
4. Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka
5. Adoor Prakash
6. Abdul Samad
7. Manish Tiwari
8. Pradyut Bordoloi
9. Girdhari Yadav
10. Geeta Koda
11. Francisco Sardinha
12. S. Jagathrakshakan
13. SR Parthiban
14. Farooq Abdullah
15. Jyotsna Mahant
16. A.Ganesha Moorthy
17. Mala Roy
18. P. Velusamy
19. Chander Kumar ((cross check))
20. Shashi Tharoor
21. Karti Chidambaram
22. Sudip Bandyopadhyay
23. Dimple Yadav
24. Hasnain Masoodi
25. Danish Ali
26. Khalilur Rahaman
27. Rajiv Ranjan Singh
28. Senthil Kumar
29. Santosh Kumar
30. Dulal Chandra Goswami
31. Ravneet Singh Bittu
32. Dinesh Yadav
33. K Sudhakaran
34. Mohd Sadiq
35. MK Prasad
36. PP Mohd Faizal
37. Sajda Ahmed
38. Jasveer Singh Gill
39. Amol Kohle
40. Sushil Kumar Rinku
41. Sunil Kumar Singh
42. Dr ST Hasan
43. M Dhanush Kumar
44. Pratibha Singh
45. Thol. Thirumavalavan
46. Chandrashwar Prasad
47. Alok Kumar Suman
48. Dileshwar Kamait
49. Adur Prakash.

With inputs from agencies