Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspends 6 Cong MPs for unruly behaviour

The Opposition parties plan to have a strategy meeting on Tuesday morning

On a day Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspended six Congress Lok Sabha members for causing “grave disorder”, the Opposition parties said they would unitedly continue to raise issues, particularly of agrarian distress, in both the Houses.

As a mark of unity, the Congress-led Opposition is mulling a public rally in the capital and protests in several parts of the country, to highlight farm distress and farmer suicides. It said that the policies of the Narendra Modi government, including demonetisation, have exacerbated farm distress. 

The date for the protests is yet to be fixed. According to sources, the protests are likely to