Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspends 25 Congress MPs suspended from the house for five days over repeated disruptions. The Congress has 44 MPs in Parliament.


The logjam continued in the Parliament today with the Congress objecting to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's statement in the Rajya Sabha saying it was made without notice and urged Chairman Hamid Ansari not to take it on record claiming it was "illegal".


In her statement during the Zero Hour, Swaraj had made the statement saying she had not made any request to the British government for issue of travel documents to controversial former IPL chief Lalit Modi and asserted that all allegations against her were "baseless and unfounded".


Swaraj managed to speak a few sentences in the Rajya Sabha amid slogan-shouting by Congress members seeking fixing of accountability in the Lalitgate and Vyapam scam but could not complete her statement.


Despite the government's best efforts to clear the logjam at the all-party meeting, the Opposition has adopted the "no resignation, no discussion' line.


With the House paralysed for most of the Monsoon Session, the BJP-led government are believed to be mulling over the idea of introducing a "no work, no pay' policy to counter the Opposition.



File picture of Parliament.