Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, right, gestures as suspended Lok Sabha MPs stage a protest in Parliament premises on February 10, 2026.
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A delegation of Opposition leaders on Friday (March 13, 2026) is to said to have pressed Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju to revoke the suspension of eight Lok Sabha members.
The eight MPs, including seven from the Congress, have been barred from attending the remainder of the Budget Session. The delegation tried to impress upon the government to revoke the suspension so that the suspended members can participate in the ongoing session which ends on April 2, 2026.
On Thursday (March 12, 2026), senior Opposition leaders, including Congress’s K.C. Venugopal, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s Kanimozhi, Nationalist Congress Party’s Supriya Sule, Samajwadi Party’s Dharmendra Yadav and Trinamool Congress’s Satandi Roy met Mr. Birla to request that the suspensions be revoked.
The issue was also raised by the Congress during the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee, chaired by Mr. Birla, but the government has not yet indicated its position on revoking the suspensions.
A senior Lok Sabha official said neither the government nor the Chair has taken any view regarding revoking the suspensions.
The MPs were suspended on February 3, 2026 following protests and disruptions in the Lok Sabha, during which members raised slogans and threw papers towards the Chair.
Published – March 14, 2026 01:40 am IST
