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Four Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs were suspended connected Monday (January 5, 2026) for the remaining 3 days of the Delhi Assembly's wintertime session.
The legislators — Sanjeev Jha, Som Dutt, Kuldeep Kumar and Jarnail Singh — were penalised for disrupting Lieutenant-Governor V.K. Saxena's address.
The archetypal league of the twelvemonth began with Mr. Saxena's speech, which was interrupted by AAP MLAs protesting against the aerial contamination levels successful the city. Following the protests, Speaker Vijender Gupta ordered respective Opposition members to beryllium marshalled retired of the House.
When the House reconvened aft the address, PWD curate Parvesh Sahib Singh moved a solution for the suspension of the 4 MLAs.
"Those subordinate who caused disturbance, specified arsenic Sanjeev Jha, Kuldeep Kumar, Som Dutt and Jarnail Singh, should beryllium suspended for the remaining 3 days of the session," Mr. Singh said portion speechmaking the resolution. The House subsequently passed the motion.
Speaker Gupta said the AAP MLAs showed contempt towards the House and the LG by causing disturbance without immoderate valid reason.
Responding to the action, Sanjeev Jha said the suspension was a effect of the members raising the contented of pollution.
The House passed different solution tabled by the PWD curate to prepone the Assembly sittings. The league volition present statesman astatine 11 a.m. alternatively of 2 p.m.
