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A total of seven MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday were suspended from the Delhi Assembly for the remaining budget session for creating a nuisance during the address of Lt Governor VK Saxena. 

 

Mohan Singh Bisht, Ajay Mahawar, OP Sharma, Abhay Verma, Anil Vajpayi, Jitender Mahajan, and Vijender Gupta are the seven BJP MLAs who received suspension orders. 

 

The BJP MLAs had interrupted Lt Governor several times during his speech on Thursday as they sought to attack the Arvind Kejriwal government. Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel had also sent the matter of disruption to the Privileges Committee.

 

AAP MLA Dilip Pandey moved a resolution in the House seeking action on this issue, which was accepted by the Speaker.

 

Pandey said that opposition members on Thursday acted in a "planned manner" while disrupting the LG's address which lowered the prestige of the House.

 

"It was unprecedented and unfortunate," he said.

 

While reading out from the rule book, he said the behavior of the opposition members has lowered the dignity of the House and demanded action.

 

Speaker Goel while accepting the resolution of Pandey, said the matter be sent to the Privileges Committee.

 

Seven members of the BJP barring Leader of Opposition Ramvir Singh Bidhuri be suspended from the proceedings of the House till the report is pending.

 

He later asked the seven members to leave the chamber of the House.

 

Leader of Opposition Bidhuri also walked out of the House in protest. Goel had on Thursday asked marshals to escort the BJP MLAs out of the House after they had repeatedly interrupted the Lt Governor's address in the Budget session highlighting achievements of the AAP government.

 

Seven out of the eight BJP MLAs in the House, barring the Leader of Opposition Bidhuri was marshalled out by the Speaker for interrupting the LG's address on the first day of the session, Assembly officials had said.

 

As soon as Saxena started reading out his speech and cited achievements of the government in the field of education, BJP MLA Gupta interrupted him raising the issue of funding of 12 colleges of the Delhi University.

 

Other BJP MLAs alleged shortage of water, non-implementation of Ayushman Bharat scheme, poor condition of hospitals, and electricity rates, with the LG continuing and concluding his address amid multiple interruptions.

 

The Budget session of the Delhi Assembly has been extended till the first week of March due to a delay in budget finalisation.