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New Delhi: TMC floor leader Derek O’Brien was on Tuesday suspended from the Upper House of Parliament for the remainder of the winter session after he threw the Rajya Sabha rule book on the chair.
Sasmit Patra, who was present on the chair, said that the TMC MP had raised a point of order and the deputy chairman duly replied to it.
After a while, O’Brien tossed the rule book in the direction of the chairman, Patra observed.
“The rule book would collide with the chair, or the secretary general, or the officers sitting at the table,” he said.
The TMC MP was suspended after the House passed a resolution moved by Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan in this regard.
The winter session is scheduled to end on December 23.
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