Shiv Sena congressman Priyanka Chaturvedi resigns as host of a Sansad TV show. (File)
New Delhi:
MP Shiv Sena Priyanka Chaturvedi on Sunday resigned as a presenter on the state-run Sansad TV channel in protest. on the suspension of twelve MPs including her from Rajya Sabha for her “unruly behavior” last week. Ms. Chaturvedi expressed her displeasure over the suspension of the Senate, saying it was “unprecedented in the history of parliament.”
NS Opposition MPs was suspended for the entire Winter session of Parliament for their alleged misconduct during the previous session in August.
Resigning from the Sansad TV channel, which among public affairs programs also broadcasts programs of the two houses of parliament, Ms. Chaturvedi posted on Koo, “It is painful for me to resign as presenter of Meri. Kahani of @sansad_tv, I don’t want to take up space on Sansad Television for a show but refuse the space on it to fulfill congressional duties due to an arbitrary suspension.”
“I have to walk,” she insisted.
“As the current highest number of female MPs have been suspended for the entire session in the recorded history of the Rajya Sabha then I need to speak out for them,” Ms Chaturvedi said in another post, attaching an attached one. copy of her resignation letter to President Venkaiah of Rajya Sabha. Naidu.
The opposition called suspend MPs is “undemocratic” and violates all the rules of procedure of the Rajya Sabha. MPs also organized protests on the premises of the National Assembly demanding the suspension of the order be lifted.
Suspended MPs are Elamaram Kareem (CPM), Phulo Devi Netam, Chhaya Verma, R Bora, Rajamani Patel, Syed Nasir Hussain and Akhilesh Prasad Singh of Parliament, Binoy Viswam of CPI, Dola Sen and Shanta Chhetri of Congress Trinamool, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Anil Desai by Shiv Sena.
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