Haryana Assembly Speaker Kanwar Pal Gujjar on Thursday decided to permit 11 Congress MlAs to attend the Assembly session from Friday onwards, reducing the duration of their suspension punishment by one day.
Following requests from leader of opposition Abhay Singh Chautala and independent MlA Jai Parkash to withdraw the punishment of Congress MlAs, Chief Minister Manohar lal on Thursday urged the Speaker to reduce their punishment as four days have already passed and only one day is left for their punishment.
After this, the Speaker announced to reduce the suspension of 11 Congress MlAs by one day and allowed them to attend the House proceedings from Friday onwards.
Barring MlA Randeep Singh Surjewala who was not present in the house on Monday, all the other Congress members had been suspended from Haryana Assembly for interrupting the Governor’s address and staging a walkout when he was speaking.
The House had passed a resolution that the Congress members shall remain suspended for five sittings till the time a discussion on the Governor’s address gets over.
later on Tuesday, three Congress MlAs including former Speaker Kuldeep Sharma, Jaiveer Singh and Jagbir Singh Malik were suspended for six months for tearing the copies of Governor’s Address. Besides, the three legislators were also been barred from taking up membership of any Vidhan Sabha Committee for a period of one year.
Meanwhile, the leader of opposition, Abhay Chautala urged the Speaker to bring privilege motion against the three Congress MlAs instead of suspending them for six months.