{"id":326679,"date":"2020-09-21T07:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326679"},"modified":"2020-09-21T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:51:36","slug":"suspension-of-8-mps-unfortunate-reflects-centres-autocratic-mindset-mamata-banerjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/suspension-of-8-mps-unfortunate-reflects-centres-autocratic-mindset-mamata-banerjee\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Suspension of 8 MPs unfortunate, reflects Centre&#8217;s autocratic mindset&#8217;: Mamata Banerjee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-cm-mamata-banerjee-withdraws-free-pass-to-cbi-in-state\/mamata-banerjee-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-305725\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/mamata-banerjee.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the Central government and termed the suspension of eight MPs from Rajya Sabha as &#8216;unfortunate&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Taking to the microblogging site, Mamata in a tweet said, &#8220;Suspension of the 8 MPs who fought to protect farmers interests is unfortunate &amp; reflective of this autocratic Govt\u2019s mindset that doesn\u2019t respect democratic norms &amp; principles. We won&#8217;t bow down &amp; we&#8217;ll fight this fascist Govt in Parliament &amp; on the streets. #BJPKilledDemocracy&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Trinamool Congress (TMC) accused BJP of murdering the democracy and said, &#8220;Absolutely unbelievable! @BJP4India MURDERED democracy by ruthlessly silencing all the opposition leaders in Rajya Sabha yesterday. Citizens of the nation, raise your voice before we&#8217;re completely under @narendramodi ji&#8217;s dictatorship! #BJPKilledDemocracy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Earlier on Monday, Eight opposition members were suspended from the Rajya Sabha over the ruckus and chaos in the house during the discussion on farm bills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">TMC\u2019s Derek O\u2019Brien and Dola Sen were among the MPs suspended by Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed the Central government and termed the suspension of eight MPs from Rajya Sabha as &#8216;unfortunate&#8217;. Taking to the microblogging site, Mamata in a tweet said, &#8220;Suspension of the 8 MPs who fought to protect farmers interests is unfortunate &amp; reflective of this autocratic Govt\u2019s mindset that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[13463,453,1889,316,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326680,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326679\/revisions\/326680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}