On November 29, the first day of the winter session Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Venkaiah Naidu suspended the 12 MPs, from five political parties, for the rest of the session, for “unruly conduct” on the last day of the monsoon session on August 11. The Government had called a meeting with four political parties on Monday to break the impasse in the House over the suspension of 12 members of Parliament with just four days left in the Winter Session.
The Leaders of Opposition parties held a meeting on Monday to take a decision on whether to attend or not the meeting called by the Government on suspension of 12 Opposition members of Rajya Sabha.
Following their meeting Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said “We will not attend the meeting called by the Government. We will demand the resignation of MoS Home Ajay Kumar Misra and revocation of suspension of 12 Opposition MPs in Rajya Sabha. We will not let both Houses of Parliament function”, according to ANI.
Also happening today is a meeting held by PM Modi with senior ministers including Defence minister Rajnath Singh and Union ministers Pralhad Joshi and Piyush Goyal, in Parliament, to discuss various issues and government strategy for the ongoing Winter Session.