Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday criticised the Opposition leaders for protesting in Parliament during the passage of agriculture bills, and said eight of them violated rules by not vacating the Rajya Sabha despite being suspended.
Prasad, flanked by Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Prahlad Joshi, was addressing a press conference a day after two farm Bills – the Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 – were passed by Rajya Sabha amid vehement protests from Opposition leaders and farmers.
The bills were passed by voice vote amid scenes of pandemonium and eight legislators were suspended on Monday for their unparliamentary behaviour in the House the previous day.
“Today’s conduct of the suspended members of not…