Amid the din over Pegasus issue, Rajya Sabha clears 3 legislations, Lok Sabha passes 2

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday suspended six TMC MPs for the day for carrying placards while protesting along with other opposition MPs over the Pegasus spying issue. In the midst of the din, the House passed three bills in an hour.

Naidu threatened to invoke rule 255 against those holding placards. As the members refused to budge, he ordered that those “disobeying the chair and raising placards shall leave the House under rule 255”.

Later, a parliamentary bulletin identified the six MPs as Dola Sen, Md Nadimul Haque, Abir Ranjan Biswas, Shanta Chhetri, Arpita Ghosh and Mausam Noor.