New Delhi: Rajya Sabha on Monday evening suspended 45 MPs from the Upper House of the Parliament for the remainder of the Winter Session, barely hours after the Lok Sabha suspended 33 MPs amid the Opposition's incessant protests over the demand for a statement by home minister Amit Shah on last week's security breach. The government's move prompted allegation by the Congress that the former intended to "bulldoze" legislations in the Parliament without the Opposition's dissent or scrutiny.

Before initiating the action, Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar said Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge refused to meet him in the chamber.

Rajya Sabha adopted a motion moved by union minister Piyush Goyal, seeking suspension of MPs over alleged "misconduct".

"34 MPs have been suspended. The case of 11 MPs has been referred to the Privilege Committee. A total of 45 Rajya Sabha MPs have been suspended today. They did not want the House to run smoothly, this was their pre-planned strategy," Goyal said.

Earlier today, the Lok Sabha suspended 33 opposition members, including Congress stalwart Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, DMK leader TR Baalu and TMC's Sougata Roy, for showing placards and raising slogans.

While 30 MPs were suspended over the protests, 3 were suspended over a breach of privilege probe against them.

Last week, 13 Opposition members were suspended from the Lok Sabha and one was suspended from the Rajya Sabha for alleged "unruly" behaviour.

The total numbers of MPs suspended from the Parliament now stands at 93.

Among those suspended from the Lok Sabha on Monday are: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Gaurav Gogoi, K Suresh, Amar Singh, Rajamohan Unnithan, Su. Thirunavukkarasar, K Muraleedharan, Anto Antony (all from Congress), Kalyan Banerjee, Aparupa Poddar, Prasun Banerjee, Sougata Ray, Satabdi Ray, Protima Mondal, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Asit Kumar Mal, Sunil Kumar Mondal (all from TMC), T R Baalu, A Raja, Dayanidhi Maran, T Sumathy, K Navas Kani, Kalanidhi Veerasamy, C N Annadurai, S S Palanimanickam, G Selvam, S Ramalingam (all from DMK), ET Mohammed Basheer (IUML), N K Premachandran (RSP) and Kaushalendra Kumar (JD-U), reported PTI.

Three Congress members -- K Jayakumar, Vijay Vasanth and Abdul Khaleque -- who had climbed on the Speaker’s podium and raised slogans, were also suspended from the Lok Sabha over breach of privileges charges.

Meanwhile, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge today said the Narendra Modi government had thrown democratic norms into the dustbin.

"Then Modi Govt attacking Parliament & Democracy. All Democratic norms are being thrown into the dustbin by an autocratic Modi Govt by suspending 47 MPs. We have two simple and genuine demands - 1. The Union Home Minister should make a statement in both Houses of Parliament on the inexcusable breach in the Parliament security. 2. A detailed discussion should be held on the same. PM can give an interview to a newspaper; Home Minister can give interviews to TV channels. But, they have ZERO accountability left to the Parliament - which represents the PEOPLE OF INDIA !" he wrote on X.

Culled from Hindustan Times