Tuesday turned out to be a day of symbolic fasting as two Rajya Sabha MPs, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh, decided to go on an one-day fast for diametrically opposite reasons. While Pawar announced his fast in response to the suspension of eight Opposition MPs who were protesting against the two controversial farm bills, the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman hoped his fast may inspire a feeling of “self-purification” within the parliamentarians who “humiliated” him.
Eight Rajya Sabha MPs were suspended from the House on Monday for their “misconduct” during the passage of two farm bills on Sunday. Some of them threw rule book, tore its page and climbed the secretary general’s table as they attacked Harivansh for going ahead with the process of the bills’ passage.
Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, Pawar bemoaned the conduct of Deputy…