The chairs of the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha have been quick to mete out suspensions to Opposition leaders Adhir Ranjan Choudhury (Congress), Derek O'Brien (Trinamool Congress) and Sanjay Singh (Aam Aadmi Party) in the monsoon session of Parliament.
The no-confidence motion moved by Gaurav Gogoi is bound to fail as the NDA members are more than twice that of the Opposition. But it is an attempt to put the government on the mat over Manipur
The Lok Sabha Secretariat has disqualified Rahul Gandhi from the House after a district court in Surat found the senior Congress leader guilty in a criminal defamation suit and slapped a two-year jail term on him.