T.N. Assembly | AIADMK suspended from attending House proceedings for rest of the session

AIADMK MLAs suspended from Tamil Nadu Assembly session for disruptive behavior during debate on Kallakurichi hooch tragedy.

Members of the AIADMK, the main Opposition party in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, were suspended from attending the proceedings of the House for the rest of the session. The session comes to an end on June 29.

Speaker M. Appavu delivered the ruling suspending the AIADMK MLAs, after the leader of the House, T.N. Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan moved a resolution with regard to this, under 121 (20) of the Assembly rules.

Earlier, he had ordered the eviction of the AIADMK members led by former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, as they gathered in front of his chair and raised slogans immediately after the proceedings of the House began with the reading of a Thirukkural couplet by the Speaker.

This is the third time the AIADMK MLAs have been evicted from the House, following their protests over the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy.

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, who was in the House, said that even though the government was ready to discuss the Kallakurichi hooch tragedy, where the death toll has risen to 61, Mr. Palaniswami was not ready to participate in the debate. “Instead, he seems to be interested in leaving the House and addressing the media outside,” the Chief Minister said.

Mr. Duraimurugan alleged that the AIADMK was not ready for a debate since they were fully aware that the Chief Minister would tear them apart over hooch tragedies that took place during the AIADMK rule.

“What has happened in Kallakurichi is an unfortunate incident. The AIADMK should have the guts to speak in the House. But they are not ready to explain their reasons for being clad in black shirts. They just meet the reporters outside the Assembly and go home,” Mr Duraimurgan said.