On 13 December 2023, two intruders named Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D, entered the Lok Sabha chamber of the Indian Parliament from the public gallery.
[10][11] Congress MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla from Amritsar snatched the smoke canister from one of the intruders and ran to the exit of the parliament to throw it away.
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla organised a meeting with the MPs to review the security arrangements and implement stricter measures to prevent such incidents from happening again.
The speaker of the Lok Sabha banned the issuance of visitor passes and ordered a high-level probe into the incident with the assistance of Delhi Police.
[21] The opposition MPs were demanding a statement by Home Minister Amit Shah in both the houses of parliament on the breach in security, and a detailed discussion on the same.
[25] The Congress termed the suspension of opposition MPs as the "murder of democracy" and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of reducing parliament to a rubber stamp.
[20] Amid the new wave of suspensions on 18 December, Congress floor leader in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who was also suspended, remarked that: "Today it is MPs, tomorrow it will be [the] common people’s turn".
[citation needed] Congress leader Jairam Ramesh claimed that the "complete purge" was being executed to pass "draconian bills" without any meaningful debate and let BJP MP Pratap Simha, who facilitated the intruders into the Lok Sabha, go scot-free.
[29] The opposition accused the BJP government of "attacking democracy", Congress MP P. Chidambaram said that parliament "is going to resemble the North Korean assembly".
Congress workers in Mysuru also staged protests outside Simha's office there, as Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah demanded a fair investigation into the incident.