New Delhi: In a kind gesture, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh brought tea for the Rajya Sabha Members of Parliament (MPs ) who are protesting at Gandhi statue against their suspension from the House.
RS Deputy Chairman Harivansh offers tea to suspended MPs The protesting MPs however, did not accept the tea and snacks offered by the deputy chairman.
PM Narendra Modi took to Twitter and lauded kind gesture by Harivansh Singh.
The suspended parliamentarians who continued their sit-in protest for the second day on Tuesday spent the night in the lawns near Mahatma Gandhi's statue.
AAP's Sanjay Singh posted a picture on Twitter from the protest site in the morning and said that the "whole night was spent under the open sky in front of Bapu's statue".
Sanjay Singh also said that we are protesting against the black laws passed by the parliament and will continue to do so for the sake of our farmers.
Congress MP Ripun Bora, who was also suspended, said Harivansh that told them that he had come to meet them as a colleague, 'however, no government representative has come to meet them so far'.
Harivansh Singh has been in the thick of things since the suspension drama unfolded. The eight MPs were suspended for the remaining part of the current session over their "misbehaviour" with the deputy chairman during the passage of the Farm Bills on Sunday.
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Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu said Deputy Chairman Harivansh, an MP from Bihar, was physically threatened by opposition MPs on Sunday.
Naidu also rejected a notice for a no-confidence motion against the deputy chairman as it was not in proper format and a 14-day notice period was not given.
The suspended MPs have vowed to continue their protest and are even likely to demand that they be allowed to attend the session.
On Monday, Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu announced the one-week suspension of Trinamool Congress' (TMC) Derek O'Brien and Dola Sen, Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Sanjay Singh, Congress' Rajeev Satav, Ripun Bora and Syed Nasir Hussain, CPI (M)'s KK Ragesh and Elamaram Karim for "unruly behaviour" with the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman on Sunday during the passage of the farm bills.
With Inputs from PTI
