The suspended lawmakers were protesting a security breach in the parliament earlier this month which saw a man storm the lower house and released a gas canister.
India suspended dozens of lawmakers from its parliament Tuesday, with opposition members accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party of orchestrating a power grab.
The lawmakers were suspended for disrupting parliamentary proceedings as they protested a security breach in the chamber after a man jumped into the Lok Sabha, or lower house, earlier this month and set off a smoke canister, shouting slogans and calling for an end to “fascism.”
The Lok Sabha’s speaker has said a review is being conducted and the police have filed terrorism charges against at least five people in connection with the breach.
the Prime Minister’s party should retain control if he’s the Prime Minister though? or is Indian politics more convoluted than that?