9 Punjab Cong MLAs suspended from entire session

Nine Congress MLAs were today suspended for the rest of budget session for unparliamentary behaviour by Punjab Assembly Speaker who said a case will be filed against six members for assaulting a cop during yesterday's ruckus by opposition alleging police raid on legislature party office.
As the House met, Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal announced suspension of nine opposition Congress MLAs for the day for their unparliamentary behaviour and insulting the Chair on Wednesday.
The Speaker took exception to his chair being occupied by one of the Congress MLAs after the adjournment yesterday and termed it "an insult to the Chair".

However, pandemonium prevailed in the House as Congress members stalled the proceedings protesting Speaker's action against nine opposition member's forcing Atwal to adjourn the House for one hour.
Congress Legislature Pary leader Sunil Kumar Jakhar protested the suspension of the Congress MLAs from the House and left the Assembly along with the suspended MLAs.
As the house met again, the ruling SAD-BJP members expressed unhappiness with the Speaker's "mild punishment" for the Congress MLAs and repeatedly urged him to take a tough action in consonance with the gravity of what had happened in the assembly yesterday.

Even as debate was in progress on a non-official resolution moved by Harpreet Singh of SAD on lavish spending in marriages in the state, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Madan Mohan Mittal intervened to raise the issue of Congress MLAs' behaviour.

"Whatever had happened was unfortunate, but the feeling of the House is that one day suspension was not commensurate with the mistake the Congress members did in the assembly," Mittal said.
"The MLAs of Congress must be suspended for the remaining period of the on-going session (scheduled till March 26) ," he said while moving a motion.
The House passed the motion "unanimously" in the absence of Congress member.