Opposition leaders gather inside Parliament to protest against the suspension of six Congress Lok Sabha MPs. Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said Speaker Sumitra Mahajan should withdraw her order and allow the MPs in the House. It has never happened under Meira Kumar. She never lost her cool. Speaker shouldn't come under government's pressure."

Six Congress members were on Monday suspended from the Lok Sabha for five days by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan for causing "grave disorder" by storming the Well, tearing papers and throwing them towards the Chair during their protests over the lynching issue.

Ordering their suspension amid noisy protests by Congress members and counter-slogans of "shame, shame" from the Bharatiya Janata Party benches, the speaker said the conduct of Gaurav Gogoi, K Suresh, Adhir Rajan Chowdhury, Ranjeet Ranjan, Sushmita Dev and M K Raghavan was "highly unbecoming" and had undermined the Chair's dignity.