Hyderabad, March 9 -- Telangana MP Mallu Ravi, one of the three MPs who introduced the no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, said Parliament was not a place to suppress debates.

Ahead of the second phase of the Budget Session of Parliament, the Congress MP, on Monday, March 9, accused Birla of disallowing Opposition MPs to speak. "We are introducing the no-confidence motion against the Speaker after he stopped the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi from speaking," Ravi told ANI.

The Telangana MP claimed that Speaker Birla had advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi against attending the Budget Session. "He told the Prime Minister that Opposition women MPs would attack him if he came to the Parliament. PM Modi should have ...