With its lawmaker Bhagwant Mann suspended for the remainder of the Winter Session, AAP on Friday claimed the move appeared to be pre-planned with MPs belonging to BJP, Shiromani Akali Dal and Congress coming together to award the stringent punishment.
AAP said the suspension was also an attempt to “silence the voice of smaller parties” in Parliament through an “act of miscarriage of justice".
Mann, who had live streamed a video from inside Parliament premises during its last session, was today held guilty of putting its security at risk by a parliamentary panel and suspended from the lok Sabha for the remainder of the Winter Session.
The House approved a motion put forth by BJP MP Kirit Somaiya, who headed the 9-member committee probing the videography issue, after it tabled the report on Thursday.
"It is a sad day for parliamentary democracy in India, since an elected MP has been deprived from raising issues of the voters who elected him for two sessions, without any justification.