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Centre hell-bent on purging Opposition


The online editions of newspapers say that 78 MPs have been suspended on December 18 from Parliament setting a record of sorts. 

Speaker, Om Birla, must be in a hurry to meet his targets to make Parliament the exclusive zone of the BJP & its NDA allies! 

When the earlier batch of 15 MPs were suspended Birla had come with the puerile reasoning that the suspension had nothing to do with the protests by the MPs about the security breach.

Is Birla a schoolmaster to set codes of conduct for the MPs? With the enmasse suspension of the MPs then there would be no debates, no discussions, no protests and this will allow all Bills to be passed unanimously. 

Then Indian Parliament will set the record of being the most efficient in the world. Modi would have thus led the world on yet another parameter but democracy in India would have touched its nadir under him.


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Security breach exposes Parliament's vulnerability

KG VILOP, Chorao
Published Dec 18, 2023, 10:17 PM IST
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The scenes played out in the Lok Sabha chamber recently, when two intruders jumped from desk to desk and deployed coloured smoke from canisters were shocking. And their co-accused staging a similar protest outside the Parliament.  This security breach is a serious security lapse which cannot be underestimated.  It also exposes the vulnerability to a terrorist who might smuggle in an explosive or a toxic chemical and the inability of agencies to wisen up to…

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