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Trinamool Congress (TMC) nationalist wide secretary Abhishek Banerjee connected Monday (February 9, 2026) said the enactment would constitute to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to see withdrawing the suspension of 8 Opposition MPs, adding that his enactment wanted the Lok Sabha to run.
While talking to reporters successful the Parliament complex, Mr. Banerjee evaded a nonstop reply to whether his enactment would enactment a no-confidence question against the Speaker arsenic being considered by different Opposition parties, and said helium had not had immoderate discussions connected the issue.
"We privation the House to run, and it is the work of the authorities to tally the House. The Opposition should besides get clip to speak," Mr. Banerjee said. "We person placed an entreaty successful beforehand of the competent authority; we anticipation that the House volition run," helium said.
Mr. Banerjee said an entreaty would beryllium formally placed earlier the Speaker seeking a reappraisal of the suspension of 8 MPs and a restoration of antiauthoritarian equilibrium wrong Parliament. The TMC, successful a station connected X, shared Mr. Banerjee's remarks and said, "A Parliament that runs by silencing the Opposition is not moving astatine all."
"Our parliamentary enactment person successful the Lok Sabha firmly stated that portion orderly behaviour of the House is essential, elected absorption MPs indispensable beryllium fixed the clip and accidental to speak. They correspond millions of citizens, and their voices cannot beryllium erased by arbitrary suspensions.”
"The PM Modi Government's discomfort with questions and accountability has reached a constituent wherever it would alternatively suspend voices than reply them," the TMC said. Asked if the TMC is connected committee with different Opposition parties successful moving a no-confidence question against Mr. Birla, Mr. Banerjee evaded a nonstop reply and said, “I person not had immoderate discussions connected that.”
Meanwhile, TMC sources pointed retired that the Congress had remained soundless connected moving a announcement for impeachment against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar. TMC main and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, during her sojourn to Delhi past week, had said her enactment would enactment the CEC's impeachment if the Congress brings a motion.
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the time connected Monday (February 9) amid a stand-off betwixt the authorities and the Opposition implicit Rahul Gandhi's request that helium beryllium allowed to talk earlier the treatment connected the Union Budget begins.
In an unprecedented development, the Lok Sabha passed the Motion of Thanks connected Thursday (February 5, 2026) past without the Prime Minister's customary reply that was scheduled a time earlier successful the look of relentless sloganeering by Opposition members.
An anguished Lok Sabha Speaker past Thursday (February 5, 2026) said helium had "concrete information" that galore Congress members mightiness determination towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi's spot and transportation retired "some unexpected act" arsenic a effect of which helium had requested him not to travel to the House to reply to the treatment connected the Motion of Thanks connected the President's Address.
