TMC MP Derek O'Brien Suspended From Rajya Sabha For Rest Of Monsoon Session

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday (8 August) suspended Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien from the Upper House of the Parliament for the remainder of the Monsoon session.

He was suspended for “unruly behaviour and disregarding the directions of the Chair”.

The TMC leader sought to speak under the pretext of raising a point of order and when the Rajya Sabha chairman asked him to point to the rule he was wanting to speak on, O'Brien said 267 -- the rule under which the opposition has been seeking a discussion on the Manipur issue since the start of the Monsoon session on 20 July.

The Leader of the House and Union Minister Piyush Goyal thereafter moved a motion for O'Brien's suspension “for continuously disturbing the proceedings of the House, disobeying the Chair and continuously creating the disturbance in the House”.

Following the motion moved by Goyal, the Rajya Sabha chairman directed Derek O'Brien to leave the House, adding that he has been suspended for the rest of the session, which ends on 11 August.