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N Surendran has been slapped with a six-month suspension from Parliament on a motion brought forth by the Prime Minister's Department, which the Padang Serai MP's colleagues in Pakatan Rakyat deem "illegal".

NONE Pakatan MPs boycotted the bloc voting process, with some of them tearing their motion papers while others crumpled it.

Going a step further, PAS Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad made a paper plane out of the motion paper.

The motion was passed without debate after deputy speaker Ronald Kiandee by-passed the debate process due to the vociferous protests from the opposition members, who at one point stood up and repeatedly chanted " usul haram " (illegal motion).

A total of 92 BN MPs voted in favour of the motion to suspend Surendran, which was read out by de-facto law minister Nancy Shukri.

Kiandee had been attempting to get the motion going since 11.30am, but was interrupted by several Opposition MPs who claimed that the House was practising double-standards by deeming the motion as "urgent".

This was because speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia, had deemed that the two days of suspension on Surendran had to be counted from the time of ejection, and not based on the days alone.

NONE As such, Azmin Ali (PKR-Gombak) said the House should practise the same standard by allowing the motion to be read only after 24 hours it is tabled, which would be at 5pm today.

"Why there is one rule for Pakatan Rakyat and another rule for Umno?" Azmin asked.

But Kiandee ( left ) said the speaker was "satisfied" with the urgency of the motion and that came under a different standing order, which is Standing Order 27, unlike Standing Order 44 which applied to suspend Surendran.

'Conflict of interest proves speaker is biased'

Pakatan MPs also argued that the motion was a "conflict of interest" since it involved the speaker, with the speaker himself being satisfied with the "urgency" of the motion.

"The motion says that Padang Serai (Surendran) called the speaker biased. But now, this is evidence that the speaker is indeed biased," Azmin said.

Surendran allegedly insulted the speaker by calling him "biased" during a press conference at the Parliament lobby on Tuesday, shortly after he was ordered out of the House.

He was ejected for attempting to read out an emergency motion on the demolition of the annexe of the Sri Muneswarar Kaliyamman Temple on Jalan P Ramlee, which speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia rejected for technical reasons.

NONE In an immediate reaction, Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim said that "BN and Umno have managed to make a mockery of the Parliament".

"We asked for (Surendran) to be referred to the rights and privileges committee, as is the normal procedure," Anwar told reporters.

"Rules were not followed, democracy was not practised, so what do they want us to debate?" he asked.

Surendran lamented the fact that he was not given an opportunity to defend himself, and described the episode as a "tyranny of the majority".

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