The suspension of over 140 Members of Parliament (MPs) has triggered a vehement response from Congress leader Shashi Tharoor who accused the Bharatiya Janata Party government of betraying parliamentary democracy and reducing it to a "travesty.”

Tharoor, himself suspended on Tuesday, addressed reporters following his participation in the opposition's protest against the mass suspension. He asserted that the accountability of the council of ministers to Parliament, a fundamental principle of parliamentary democracy, had been compromised.